Our Team
Every TALK clinician is a master’s-level speech-language pathologist holding ASHA’s Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP), and every one arrived here seasoned. TALK has never hired a new graduate: your child’s hours are spent with clinicians who have already seen hundreds of cases like theirs. Every TALK clinician is also trained in Orton-Gillingham and other structured-literacy programs, so spelling and reading skill development can be supported in every session.
Heather Hamilton, M.S., CCC-SLP
Founder & Senior Speech-Language Pathologist
Heather founded TALK in 2011 to give Atlanta families the practice she wished existed: clinically rigorous, genuinely warm, and accountable for results. Fifteen years on, she still leads the team's clinical standards, performs most of the practice's preschool evaluations, and treats every week: the complex language profiles, the psychoeducational-referral kids, the children other practices found hard to reach. Georgia State University invites her back every year to lecture to its speech-language pathology students, and she is certified in the Compton PESL Accent Modification Method, leading TALK's adult accent and professional-communication work personally.
Clare Lashley, M.A., CCC-SLP, Orofacial Myologist
Senior Speech-Language Pathologist & Orofacial Myologist
Clare is the team's motor-speech and orofacial specialist, one of the few certified orofacial myologists practicing in Atlanta. Her caseload spans feeding and swallowing, tongue thrust and post-frenectomy myofunctional therapy (often in collaboration with families' orthodontists and dentists), and motor-speech work where precision, frequency, and patience compound into breakthroughs. Like Heather, she holds ASHA's ACE Award for continuing education beyond what licensure requires.
Bethany Morgado, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Bethany blends structured, data-driven therapy with the kind of playfulness that makes children ask when they get to come back. Her deep experience spans speech sound disorders and the language that runs underneath academics: reading, writing, and math alike. It's a distinctive pairing: many children who struggle with word problems and math reasoning are really wrestling with language, and Bethany's particular interest in the math–language connection means those kids finally get both sides addressed. Many of her clients arrive with a dyslexia or dyscalculia diagnosis or a psychoeducational evaluation in hand. Bethany is bilingual and provides therapy in French.
Yvonne Bolin, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Yvonne is a preschool speech and language specialist who came to TALK from Atlanta International School, where she was a highly regarded member of the team, and she brings that insider understanding of the immersion-school experience to every family we serve from Atlanta's independent schools. Trilingual, she provides therapy in French and German as well as English, and meets anxious families with calm and a plan.
Heather makes the match
After your evaluation, Heather personally matches your child to the clinician whose specialty and style fit best. That clinician stays with your child from the first session to the last.
Begin here
Start with a conversation.
Your call reaches a person who knows speech and language, live or returned the same or next business day. We’ll listen, tell you honestly whether an evaluation makes sense, and explain exactly what happens next.
Calls returned the same or next business day · Evaluations typically within 1–2 weeks · After-school appointments available · TeleTherapy backup for busy weeks