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Excel Speech Therapy Testimonials

Dear Brigid,

First, we wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed your class. We know it's not easy to teach families with difficult moments but you managed to keep us all interested and we even had a lot of fun.

“More Than Words” is an amazing program and enormous opportunity to us (parents) to begin or to improve communication with our child. We learned many tools to communicate with our loved son and what we could do at home to help him improve. Now we use many visual helpers with Velcro at home and in the community. We loved the “More Than Words” program.

Best Regards,
Lalo, Eduardo, Alma + new baby.

My little guy was struggling big time as we tried to figure out how to help him with his motor planning delays. You took us both on, helped him learn how to write, not drool, manage swings and catch a ball.

All I have to say is THANK YOU! Spencer is now in first grade and rocking the world. He plays soccer and scored 5 goals this season. He is also an amazing goalie. (Loves that proprioceptive input of crashing on the ground!) He hit a home run in baseball last season and scored tons of baskets during basketball season. We had his parent teacher conference yesterday and he is getting 100% on all of his math and spelling tests, has the BEST handwriting in the class and is overall a happy sweet little boy.

We still have our challenges but we have an amazing support system at Sage Canyon. He goes to Speech and OT twice a week and has a fan club rooting him on.

I was thinking about you yesterday and felt the need to reach out. Thank you for all that you did for Spencer and our family. I appreciate you more than you can possibly know.

My daughter Zoe is a speech therapy client in your Bonita office. I wanted to let you know how very pleased we are with the quality of your staff there. Zoe's therapist, Lindsay Stark, is wonderful! She is always personable and professional. My daughter is benefitting tremendously from her expertise. I have been equally impressed with Melanie, the receptionist. She has been consistently friendly and eager to help. She provided our introduction to the facility and made me feel confident that Excel was the right choice for my daughter.

I am very pleased with the services your center provides. I happily recommend Excel to other families.

Going to Excel Speech Therapy has been wonderful not only for our daughter but for our family as well. Our daughter was born with a cleft palate and her doctors told us she might never talk. We first started going to Excel when she turned one, and at the time she couldn’t say any words. With the therapists she worked and played hard. While she was learning, we as parents were also learning. We were shown how to help her in everyday life, and how to nurture and encourage her speech development. When our daughter started school, Excel worked with the teachers to help her reach her speech goals. Now our daughter is five and can say more than a hundred words, is talking in sentences, and communicating with other children and adults effectively.

We cannot thank the therapists at Excel Speech enough for all that they have done for our family.

Sincerely,
A grateful family

Our son was not speaking at all at age 2, so his pediatrician recommended speech therapy. After we found our own insurance didn’t provide appropriate services, we decided to seek out other professional help. My nephew had been seen by OT Etc for occupational therapy and since they share the same facility as Excel Speech Therapy Center, we were able to see how the speech therapists interacted with their patients. So when we decided to pursue other services we knew we wanted our son to be helped by Excel Speech. At the diagnostic meeting, we knew we had come to the right place. After the first session, we knew we would finally get the help we needed for our son. The highly trained therapists were incredible. They matched our sons personality to an appropriate therapist, and we were off and running. The level of care, activities provided, nurturing, commitment, and professionalism we viewed were unparalleled by what we had been through with other places. Our son would get excited to go see his therapist and she always greeted him with hugs, smiles, and an enthusiasm to help him have a successful session. Our therapist took the time to learn about our son’s personality, and utilized his strengths and weaknesses to customize his sessions. She found fun and exciting ways to get him to learn and speak, and was able to provide us with tools to work with him at home as well. Since our insurance wouldn’t pay for the therapy, we were responsible for the cost. But no amount of money could keep us from bringing our son to Excel Speech – and we would pay it all over again if our next child showed signs of needing any kind of therapy. To see our son’s face light up when he finally was able to communicate with us was worth everything. We will forever be in debt to the wonderful therapists at Excel Speech for all of their hard work, dedication, and love of children.

Dear Brigid,

I want to thank you for your dedication and enthusiasm in your work with Matthew. He has made great progress in his communication and speech over his time with you. It is obvious that you and the staff at Excel Speech genuinely care about the kids. Our family really appreciates all you’ve accomplished with Matthew.

Thanks again,
Linda and family

My son has been going to Excel Speech since November of 2007, and we've been very satisfied with our services. The office offers a small play area that's very helpful when waiting with my youngest son. I've also been very pleased with the consistent and knowledgeable staff, and I look forward to working with them in the future.

My son and I absolutely love his speech therapist and we highly recommend her to anyone we run into looking for one. Luann is very warm and energetic, not to mention experienced and confident in her work. My son is rather shy but comes out of his shell around Luann, and I feel each session brings new surprises.

Dear Luann,

First of all..I am gonna start by thanking you so much for all you do with and for Cody. He loves you and it makes my heart soar to see him run to you and hug you after a weekend away from you. It shows me just how much you mean to him and I wanted to let you know that you mean that much to Mitch and I as well.

Thank you for all you do!

*hug*

I wanted to share a bit of my experience with any of you who may be considering speech therapy for your child. When I first heard from Codys doctor that he may need speech therapy, I said "Nah! Not my son..he's just a little guy..he will talk when he is ready." I was in a complete state of denial. My son had a vocabulary of maybe 15 words at the age of 2. He used sign language for everything so I guess he figured he did not need to talk. After a few months I decided to go thru some testing with the doctors and it ended up that excel speech therapy called me and said " We got an ok for you to start speech therapy!" I said to myself well ok, I will give it a try....

Since the day we started with Excell I have not looked back. The whole experience has been so incredible, that it is hard for me to find the words. Cody now, at 2 1/2 is talking up a storm and he loves his therapist. It is hard for me to even call Luann a therapist, as we think of her as so much more. I am so glad that I decided not to let my pride get in the way of Cody getting a foot hold on his future. He will no doubt have a MUCH easier time with school and learning, all due to the wonderful things he has learned at Excel.

Rhonda Diamond