Effective Speech Therapy

Sheryl Heidt does an amazing job with children and adults.

I worked in the public school system for 23 years & observed numerous speech pathologists. Often times, students were put in small groups with an aide to do the therapy. At Effective Speech Therapy, Sheryl works one on one with her client.

Our granddaughter had severe apraxia of speech which is a motor planning deficit. She was 85% unintelligible throughout kindergarten. She desperately wanted to play with other children, but was unable to even speak her name. Sheryl is a phenomenal diagnostician & treatment was adjusted throughout therapy.

Sheryl has a wealth of knowledge & a variety of interventions. I was able to talk with her about the previous week’s challenges & she wove that information into the therapy. As a result, our granddaughter has finished 4th grade & is one of the top readers in her class. Without Sheryl’s intervention our granddaughter would have been lost in a public school setting.

Sheryl has also worked with my husband who has an atypical parkinsonism; a diagnosis that leads to speech, language, and cognitive difficulties. My husband’s physician at UCLA has been extremely pleased with the progress he has made with Sheryl. She has helped him to be able to access his prior language skills using theories of neuroplasticity and the creation of new neural pathways. She has helped us, as a family, to find ways to communicate with my husband to reduce the stress on him. She has given him tools to help deal with public situations. Sheryl is not the type of speech pathologist who will open a book to page 33 and next week go to page 34. She is constantly listening & interacting, reassessing & encouraging you. With her help, my husband’s quality of life has been greatly improved.

There are not enough words to describe what a phenomenal speech pathologist Sheryl Heidt is and the lasting impact she has had. We would highly recommend her for all your speech & language problems.