About us

About

Speech Bilingual

Speech Bilingual, offers treatment and improvement of speech and language development for children of all ages. We are fully bilingual (English and Spanish) and have extensive training for the most effective practices and treatment. We strive to provide sessions that are engaging to the child in both in-home and virtual formats, to expand your child’s abilities to communicate in all settings, from home, to school, to the store.

Our mission is to provide current therapy techniques that are both innovative and adaptable for your child. Know that speech bilingual is here to help you and your child. Areas of expertise include:

  • 1 Fluency / Stuttering.
  • 2 Receptive Language / Auditory Comprehension Difficulty.
  • 3 Expressive Language: verbal and non-verbal means of communication .
  • 4 Social skills/pragmatics: Understanding how to use and change language according to the listener(s) and/or setting.
  • 5 Speech Production: Producing speech that others can understand.
  • 6 Voice/Resonance: issue with oral-nasal resonance, vocal quality, loudness, or pitch.
Speech Therapy Bilingual

Call us today to find out more about Speech Bilingual

Located in San Antonio, Texas. We regularly help children reach their goal and maximize their outcomes while helping to improve their overall quality of life.

Meet

Haydee Thurber, M.A. CCC-SLP

Speech Bilingual is therapist owned and operated by bilingual speech language pathologist Haydee Thurber. Haydee was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and moved at an early age to the United States. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from St. Mary’s University and soon after obtained her Master’s Degree in Communication Disorders from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.

She has over 15 years of experience and has obtained her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA). Her experiences include evaluating and treating children (bilingual and monolingual) in schools, clinics, hospitals, and home settings. Other certifications that she has obtained are neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES/Vital Stim), bilingual certification and myofascial treatment of dysphagia.

Certifications:

1. Bilingual Certified Speech Therapist
2. Tools for treating feeding in the medically challenging child
3. Vital Stim therapy provider
4. Practical strategies for treating complex pediatric feeding disorders treating the whole child
5. Modified Barium Swallow Study: The Clear Picture
6. Lidcombe Program for preschool children who stutter
7. Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist Haydee Thurber, M.A., CCC-SLP.
 Bilingual Certified Speech Therapist
Tools for treating feeding in the medically challenging child
 Vital Stim therapy provider