building trusting connections with children and families to help kids learn, grow their confidence, and meet their goals

Speech Therapy Services

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  • Language Delays & Disorders

    Intervention for children who may need support with asking and answering questions, telling stories, understanding spoken and written language, syntax and grammar, and following verbal directions.

  • Articulation & Phonology

    Goal-oriented and oftentimes fun therapy to correct speech sounds that children have difficulty pronouncing or differentiating between.

  • Stuttering

    • Fluency-shaping and stuttering modification techniques that help children increase control and confidence in their speaking abilities

    • Stuttering acceptance therapy focus on the psychological and social-emotional elements of disfluency

    • Lidcombe Program for children under the age of 6 who stutter

  • Early Intervention

    Child-centered, play-based language therapy that helps young children with delayed language skills learn multi-modal communication through spoken words, gestures, sign and/or high- and low-tech AAC.

  • Gestalt Language Processing

    Individualized intervention for children who are acquiring language as gestalt language processors, delayed echolalia and scripting.

  • Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Structured therapy focuses on improving motor planning through frequent, individualized practice and total communication to build consistency, clarity, and confidence in communication.

Let’s get started.

  • First

    Email to set up a time to chat about your child’s needs, ask insurance questions, inquire about scheduling and more. We’ll discuss your concerns and how speech services can help.

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    We’ll schedule an evaluation session, which typically lasts about an hour. After that, I will provide initial impressions and recommendations. Within two weeks of the assessment, you will receive a written report with results and proposed goals.

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    Once- to twice-weekly therapy can take place in-clinic on Union Street or via telehealth. Assigned weekly home practice with carryover activities will help accelerate and cement your child’s new skills.

Meet Hannah

Hannah Lieberknecht has more than 13 years of experience as a pediatric SLP and really does love her job. She received her MA in speech, language and hearing sciences from San Diego State University and her BA in human biology from Stanford University.

Prior to becoming a speech-language pathologist, Hannah worked at the Bing Nursery School at Stanford, where she collaborated on developmental psychology research with foci on personality, motivation, nutrition and language development with preschool-age children. She also dropped out of journalism school and tried out a few desk jobs.

Over the past decade, Hannah has focused her practice on working with children in public and private schools as well as in her office on Union Street in San Francisco.

​Special areas of interest include early intervention for children with language delays, gestalt language processing, and phonological and articulation disorders. Hannah has received advanced training in identifying and treating childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). She also regularly treats young children who stutter utilizing the Lidcombe Program.

​Outside of working hours, you can find Hannah on Reddit or walking and running around San Francisco with her husband, Nick, adorable labradoodles, Rhys and Bearleigh (either of whom may greet you at the office), “the more-the-merrier”-mindset 10-year-old daughter, Larkin, and garden- and aquarium-tending 8-year-old son, Beckett.

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS​

  • Natural Language Acquisition-Trained Clinician through Meaningful Speech

  • Lidcombe Program for Young Children Who Stutter

  • PROMPT(PROMPTs for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)

  • Social Thinking for Social-Pragmatic Language Disorders

  • DTTC (Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing) Introductory and Advanced Level Trainings

​Hannah is currently working toward additional certifications and trainings in cultural and linguistic diversity, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and selective mutism. ​

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LICENSES & CREDENTIALS

  • California Speech-Language Pathology Services Credential 

  • California State Speech-Language Pathologist License

  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence

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Payment

A philosophy at Talk Shop is that if you pay for insurance, you should be able to benefit from it.

If you don’t happen to have coverage through one of the listed insurers, Hannah can help you submit your claims for out-of-network coverage by providing you with a detailed invoice ("Super Bill") including the diagnostic information and treatment codes that insurers require to process claims.

Speech therapy is also a qualified reimbursement under Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans.

Hannah works with and is on the advisory board of Beaming Health, an organization committed to helping broaden access to healthcare for families seeking therapeutic support for their children, and consults with Genex, an AI-platform that helps families understand and navigate complex genetic and developmental information and provides clear, personalized guidance for families.

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Send an email! I’d love to chat.

Since I’m usually with clients during the work hours, email is the fastest way to get in touch.

Please expect a response within 24 hours to email inquiries.

Hours
Monday - Thursday: 9 - 6
Friday: 9 - 12

Phone
(650) 468-6478

Email
hannah@talkshopspeech.com