OUR STORY: Founded in 2013 by Julie Meyer, M.S. CCC-SLP, Listen Hear Speech and Hearing is a private practice specializing in services for children with deafness or hearing loss, and children with language and/or speech sound disorders. Listen Hear works on listening, language, & speech sound development, as well as empowers parents and educators to support & encourage listening & communication development in the classroom & home. OUR MISSION: To provide quality services to children & their families in a fun, positive & nurturing environment; promote use of best practices & effective strategies in the classroom and home; utilize evidence-based intervention; educate & support family members, teachers, & other professionals. OUR SERVICES: I provide individual & group therapy sessions for listening and spoken language, speech, language comprehension/processing, & fluency development to children with hearing loss & children with speech sound, language, and/or fluency disorders, in Fredericksburg, VA, & to the surrounding areas, as well as collaboration/ongoing training with parents & professionals.

Welcome to Sunshine Speech Therapy, a traveling speech therapy practice. My mission is centered around helping children to reach their full potential as communicators. I specialize in the prevention, assessment, and treatment of speech, language & communication delays and disorders for children ages 3 to 18 years. I aim to provide engaging, comprehensive, evidence-based therapy techniques within the child’s most natural environment — their home. I teach effective & fun strategies to parents to help support language development, play, and early literacy skills. COVID 19 Update: Due to restrictions during the COVID 19 pandemic, Sunshine Speech now offers telepractice for treatment. We offer evaluations via telepractice, as well as extensions of targeting client IEP speech goals during school closures.

The Coleman Therapy Center (CTC) is mainly a pediatric therapy center that provides speech and language diagnostics and therapy. CTC therapists provide evaluations and therapy for children with varying disabilities and disorders ranging from apraxia and autism to syndromes and traumatic brain injuries. CTC therapists are trained in a variety of treatment approaches like PROMPT (Hayden), The Listening Program (ABT), and Floortime (Greenspan). CTC is also happy to offer the Lindamood Bell, Wilson and Orton-Gillingham intensive reading programs for struggling readers. Our Therapy Programs include individual therapy, group therapy, reading therapy, social skills groups, fabulous Fridays, NVTRP and CTC camp, hippotherapy and The Listening Program. Individual Therapy: Most of our therapy program consists of either a 30 or 60 minute individual therapy session which follows an individualized treatment plan based on the strengths and needs of your child. Treatment plans are updated frequently to ensure that we are always targeting the appropriate objectives for your child. Group Therapy: Group therapy may be available but depends on family interest. We always ensure that all group members complement each other in order to have a functional, successful group outcome. Please call to see if any groups are running currently. Group therapy may be available in our Reading Programs and/or therapy treatment programs. Reading Therapy: CTC is proud to offer the Lindamood Bell LiPs, Seeing Stars and Visualizing/Verbalizing programs. These programs are typically offered in two, three and four hour sessions. Intensive reading therapy offered during school holidays and summer vacations. Social Skills Groups: This group therapy is for children 4-12 years old. The Speech Pathologists at The Coleman Therapy Center will provide social skills instruction using the Michelle Garcia Winner curriculum target adapting to others, how to engage and play with peers, perspective-taking, social language and interaction. Fabulous Fridays for Children with Down Syndrome: During this group therapy summer program the therapist provides three hours of intense instruction for children 4-10 years old with Down Syndrome. NVTRP and CTC Camp: During the summer, the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program (NVTRP) and The Coleman Therapy Center (CTC) pair up for an unforgettable camp experience, which includes therapeutic horseback riding, group speech therapy, and gross/motor sensory play. Hippotherapy: In this therapy program, the speech-language pathologist uses horseback riding movement to facilitate the physiologic systems that support speech and language. When combined with other standard speech-language intervention strategies, the speech-language pathologist is able generate effective remediation of communication disorders and promote functional communication outcomes.

Hello! I am a licensed as a speech-language pathologist in Virginia. I completed my second level of Prompt© training: Bridging Prompt© Technique to Intervention. I am an active certified member of the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association and is licensed to practice speech-language pathology in Virginia. I received my B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Pennsylvania State University, and my M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of the District of Columbia. I have experience working in the private clinical setting, homes, public charter and public schools with children preschool-8th grade with a variety of learning needs, as well as providing early intervention services for the birth-3 population. I have experience working with children with a variety of communication disorders, including: expressive and receptive language disorders, autism spectrum disorder, apraxia, articulation and motor speech disorders, dysfluency, social-cognitive disorders, and developmental delays. My continuing education includes: Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and Hanen: It Takes Two to Talk, a program focusing on training parents in language acquisition and growth.