Our Story

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TALK is the culmination of decades of experience working with incredible children and their parents to help both reach the best of their abilities!

Heather Hamilton, the owner of TALK graduated with honors and a Master's degree from the prestigious Communication Sciences & Disorders program at Syracuse University in 1995.  She worked as a speech therapist for a number of different public school systems across the country. This experience gave her deep insight in to the inner workings of different school systems, how they operate, what they need, and their limitations. It also gave her tremendous experience with a vast number of disorders and the needs of families who are involved in the process of speech therapy. 

Heather was soon picked up by an elite private Speech-Language Pathology practice where she began to truly forge her therapeutic philosophy - keeping children engaged by having fun.  Instead of boring children with the same drills and routines every session, she instead researched how she could use games to achieve the same speech and language goals while having fun with her clients.  Her method became so effective that she was recruited by a larger and a prestigious practice where she became one of their top performers.

In 2008 Heather started an in-home therapy service designed to cater to discerning parents with high expectations.  After many years of refining her therapeutic approach to keep children engaged and progressing she decided to open her first office in Atlanta.

Heather's passion is helping individuals with communication disorders. TALK is the culmination of all that she has learned over more than 20 years in the field of Speech-Language Pathology. During that time she has carefully studied many different therapy techniques, private practices, and school systems from which she has taken the very best to create TALK.

Her husband, Christopher Creel, is the Chief Technology Officer for TALK, with over 35 years of experience in research and development and over 10 years in healthcare innovation.  He brings his advanced technology skills, Internet of Thing (IoT) research, and creative flare to engage children in new ways that make a visit to TALK something everyone looks forward to.

We look forward to working with the families of Atlanta to help us write the rest of our story.

Affiliations

International Dyslexia Association (https://dyslexiaida.org/)

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: https://www.asha.org/

International Literacy Association: https://literacyworldwide.org/

The Miami Circle Merchants Association https://miamicircleshops.com/.