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

Speech Therapy Services

  • Language Delays & Disorders

    Therapy for preschool- and school-aged children who may need support with:

    - asking and answering questions

    - word retrieval

    - oral narrative production

    - oral and reading comprehension

    - syntax and grammar

    - following verbal directions

  • Articulation, Phonology & Apraxia of Speech

    Goal-oriented - and oftentimes even fun - intervention to correct sounds that children often have difficulty pronouncing or differentiating between.

  • Fluency

    - 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

  • Expressive & Receptive Language Delays

    Child-centered, play-based language therapy that helps toddlers 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 aka going through the process of natural language acquisition.

  • Social-Pragmatic Communication

    Neurodiversity affirming approach to therapy that can include:

    -identifying and describing feelings

    - initiating and maintaining conversations

    - interpreting and using non-verbal communication

    - inferencing

Let’s get started.

  • First

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

  • Next

    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.

  • Last

    Once- to twice-weekly therapy can take place in-clinic 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 nearly 12 years’ 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 therapist/speech-language pathologist/speech teacher, 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.

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, natural language acquisition and gestalt language processing, phonological and articulation disorders, and childhood apraxia of speech. 

​Outside of working hours, you can find Hannah on Reddit or walking and running around San Francisco with her husband, Nick, adorable labradoodle, Rhys (who you may meet at the office!), super duper extroverted 8-year-old daughter, Larkin, and garden- and aquarium-tending 6-year-old son, Beckett. Hannah also spends a lot of time on Reddit.​

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS​

  • Natural Language Acquisition-Trained Clinician through Meaningful Speech

  • Dynamic Temporal & Tactile Cueing (DTTC)

  • Lidcombe Program for Young Children Who Stutter

  • PROMPT (PROMPTs for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)

  • Social Thinking for Social-Pragmatic Language Disorders

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

LICENSES & CREDENTIALS

  • California Speech-Language Pathology Services Credential 

  • California State Speech-Language Pathologist License

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

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 also works with Beaming Health, an organization committed to helping broaden access to healthcare for families seeking therapeutic support for their children.

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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, and within 48 hours when reaching out via phone.

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

Phone
(650) 468-6478