Speech Therapy
Online Speech Therapy
for Clear Communication
Serving California + Washington
We’re speech therapists who are also trained in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy.
That matters because speech challenges are often just the tip of the iceberg.
Instead of only correcting the sound you hear, we look underneath it—at how the tongue, lips, jaw, breathing, and oral movements are working together.
We’re Impatient … in the Best Way
We don’t want you or your child working on the same sound for years.
We’re honest, data-driven, and focused on progress.
As a general rule, we don’t want to spend more than about 8 weeks working on one specific target without seeing meaningful change in the right direction.
If something isn’t working, we want to know why.
Families Come To Us When Their Child:
Has been in speech therapy for years
Has a persistent lisp
Struggles to say the “R” sound
Pushes their tongue forward when speaking
Have a tongue that pokes out on multiple sounds
Are difficult for others to understand
Know what they want to say but can’t say it clearly
Aren’t making the progress parents expected from speech therapy
Sometimes it’s one stubborn sound.
Other times, speech just doesn’t seem to match the funny, smart, outgoing kid you know is in there.
Speech challenges are often the tip of the iceberg.
How Speech Therapy With Us Works
Our speech therapy is completely online.
No driving across town after school. No sitting in another waiting room.
Your child gets to practice communication in the environment where they actually use it every day.
Speech therapy should be effective. But it can also be fun.
We build sessions around your child, often using their interests as well as games and activities to keep them engaged while we work very intentionally on the oral motor skills they need to learn.
Our Treatment Flow
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First, we look at the whole picture.
We evaluate speech as well as the tongue, lips, jaw, oral movement patterns, and any underlying issues that could be making a sound harder to produce.
Before we ask a child to learn a new oral motor movement, we want to make sure their body is ready to learn it.
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We teach the correct oral motor movement and help your child produce the sound by itself.
This is about building a completely new motor movement — not just telling them to “try again.”
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Once your child can produce the sound consistently on its own, we practice producing it correctly while other sounds are happening around it in syllables and words.
Sometimes this is the hardest part, because the brain wants to go back to the old oral motor movement.
This is why it’s so important that we take time to understand your child’s unique oral motor strengths and weaknesses.
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Being able to say an “R” or “S” correctly during therapy is very different from saying it naturally during conversational speech.
We practice at levels of increasing difficulty (e.g. words, phrases, sentences, tongue twisters, reading out loud, etc.) until the new sound carries into conversation and becomes something your child no longer has to think about.
“We want your child’s speech to match who they already are.”
Speech Therapy With Results
For us, success isn’t simply producing the right sound with support.
It’s hearing a child use it independently and confidently in real life.
After working with us, parents report:
Clearer, easier-to-understand speech
Less frustration around communication
Fewer communication-related meltdowns
More confidence speaking
More willingness to talk socially
Improvements at school
More of their child’s personality coming through
Saying words — even their own name — clearly and consistently
Clear speech can open up much more than conversation.
It can change how confidently a child participates in class, makes friends, tells jokes, asks for what they need, and lets other people see who they really are.
About Spark
+ Why Our Approach Is Different
A child can practice the same sound hundreds of times... and still not get it right.
If there’s an underlying reason they can’t make the movement correctly, repetition alone may not solve the problem. In fact, they may be practicing the wrong movement hundreds of times.
Because our speech therapists are also trained in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, we’re looking beyond pronunciation.
We consider how the tongue moves and rests, what the jaw and lips are doing, and whether another oral pattern may be contributing to the speech challenge.
Then we treat what we actually discover.
Not what we assume is happening.
Our Speech Therapists
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![Leslie Bennett MS, CCC-SLP]()
Leslie Bennett MS, CCC-SLP
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![Gretchen Bechard M.S.Ed., CCC-SLP]()
Gretchen Bechard M.S.Ed., CCC-SLP
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![Dina Deukmajian M.S., CCC-SLP]()
Dina Deukmajian M.S., CCC-SLP
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4 Steps To
Get Started
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Tell us what you’ve been noticing and what your child has been struggling to say.
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We’ll talk through your concerns, previous speech therapy, and whether our approach may be a good fit.
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We’ll evaluate your child’s speech and the underlying movements involved, then create a focused treatment plan.
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We’ll meet online, practice targeted skills during sessions, and give you clear exercises to practice between appointments.