SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICES
Our Mission
We celebrate your child's unique skills, personalities, and abilities.
Through our personalized assessments and treatment plans we are commited to helping our clients speech and language skills while also instilling confidence in themselves.
Art of Speech has been built around encouraging extensive connections with families and clients for successful and productive outcomes to the treatment process. We believe in creating a safe and comfortable environment to help support clients and their families needs. We have acquired a collaborative approach because we feel that this approach is the heart of building ever-lasting change.
The Practice
We truly believe speech is an art form. It gives individuals the ability to communicate and it embodies expression, power, and beauty. Our mission here at Art of Speech is to provide individualized and effective speech and language therapy services for children of all ages and young adults. Through family-centered and evidence-based therapy, we aim to empower children and young adults to reach their goals and blossom to their full potential. We provide thorough evaluations, diagnoses, and treatment for those with all speech and language delays and disorders including phonological and articulation disorders, Autism Spectrum Disoder, Down Syndrome, Aphasia, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, fluency disorders, genetic disorders, expressive and recpetive language disorders, social communication disorders, as well as many others.
Founder
Welcome to Art of Speech! We are thrilled to have you here. My name is Natalie Sumian and I am a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist. I have had a passion for this field as young as sixteen years old and have thoroughly enjoyed learning and experiencing all this field has to offer. I started as a speech and language pathologist assitant and gained the expereince in the field while working under various professionals and soon embarked on the journey of getting my Master's degree in Communicative Disorders at Cal State University, Northridge. I have had over five years of experience treating children and adults of all ages with various speech and language disorders. I have a true passion for working with individuals and their families to create a warm and exciting experience while ensuring effective treatment and continious progress.
Services
We specialize in providing services for children of all ages and young adults. We create personalized treatment plans to meet each client's individual needs. In addition, we also provide parent training to promote facilitation of techniques and tools for home practice to help support the client outside of the therapy room. Services are provided in the home, in the school (if accessible), as well as through teletherapy.
Our Locations
Therapy is provided where it works for you!
In order to provide the highest quality care for clients and their families, Art of Speech offers services in the comfort of your home, in school if accessible, or teletherapy. Wether in person or online, sessions are throughly planned and created to meet each individual's needs.
In Home
Providing speech and language therapy from the comfort of your home! We will come to your home bringing a vairtey of materials, toys, and acitivities to complete during home-sessions as well as incorporating materials and toys from your home to provide a comfortable and effective experience. We offer in-home services to indivudals across the San Fernando Valley and Glendale areas.
In School
We also offer services in the school if accessible. We are able to come to schools or daycares and provide speech and language services while using our materials, toys, and activities. In school services have been found to be very helpful for children who have social communication or verbal expression difficulties. Therapists are able to help clients in the classroom setting as well as provide individualized therapy in a private room at the school or daycare.
Teletherapy
Teletherapy offers the same high-quality care and experience from the comfort of your own home or setting. Wether you are out of town, or live outside of the areas we serve in home and in school services to, teletherapy sessions offer the felxibility you may need. Teletherapy is an evidence-based and effective therapy option. It is provided to those located throughout the state of California.
