Barbara A. Taylor, M.S., CCC-SLP & Associates
Barbara A. Taylor, M.S., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist Founder/CEO Help Me Speak, LLC
In 1998, Barbara Taylor, M.S., CCC-SLP founded, Help Me Speak, LLC, a Speech-Language and Oral Motor Therapy private practice located in Marriottsville in Howard County, Maryland. Help Me Speak, LLC is a comprehensive private practice that accepts private pay clients by appointment only. Individual & group therapy sessions are offered in our clinic location.
Help Me Speak, LLC develops an individually tailored approach to best meet each client’s specific needs. Because we are experts in a wide variety of therapy techniques, we are uniquely qualified to develop and utilize an optimal treatment plan for each client to allow for maximum progress.
Help Me Speak, LLC & Associates are trained in the following techniques/methods: PROMPT, Interactive Metronome (IM), REI (Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention), Food Chaining, Toomey’s Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approach to feeding, Talk Tools hierarchies (Sara R. Johnson), Beckman stretches, Kaufman techniques, Fast ForWord, T.E.A.C.C.H., Suzanne Evans Morris Mealtime strategies, A.E.I.O.U., and other traditional methods. Mrs. Taylor and her associates each have their Master’s Degrees, are licensed by the State of Maryland, and have their Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). Help Me Speak & Associates offers traditional speech & language therapy as well as a variety of other pediatric and adult treatment approaches. Help Me Speak, LLC provides their clients with individualized therapy sessions in a structured, yet comfortable environment.
Are you familiar with the Starfish Story? It explains Barbara’s passion for speech-language pathology and her desire to assist clients with improving their abilities to speak, eat, and sign.
Starfish Story (condensed version)
A visitor was walking along the beach at sunset. He saw a native man in the distance who was leaning down, picking something up, and throwing back into the ocean. As the visitor approached, he noticed that the native man was picking up starfish on the beach one at a time and throwing them back into the ocean. The visitor was puzzled and asked “What are you doing?”. The native replied, “I am throwing these starfish back into the ocean. It is low tide and they have washed onto the beach. If I don’t throw them back they will die from lack of oxygen.” The visitor replied “I understand but I am confused. There must be thousands of starfish along this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. And there are many beaches along the coast. You can’t possibly make a difference.” The native bent down, picked up a starfish, threw it back in the ocean, smiled and said, “I made a difference to that one.”
Our mission at Help Me Speak, LLC is to help people of all ages to speak, eat, sign, learn, and play and to make a difference—in quality and quantity— in the life of each one. Progress comes in all forms—small steps and large leaps. We will be there to help the whole client (client & family) to learn to speak, eat, sign, learn, and/or play. Since maximal progress in speech, language, eating therapy occurs in an environment of optimal nutrition and reduced stress, we are dedicated to helping our clients & their families achieve a healthy lifestyle.
