Barbara A. Taylor, MS, CCC-SLP, COM
Barbara A. Taylor, MS, CCC-SLP, COM® Owner, CEO Help Me Speak, LLC
Driven by her desire to help others become more proficient and confident in their communication & swallowing skills, she opened her private practice, Help Me Speak, LLC, 20 years ago in December 1998. The mission of Help Me Speak, LLC is to help people of all ages to speak, eat, sign learn, and play & make a difference in the quality and quantity in the life of each person. Today, Help Me Speak, LLC is Howard County’s premier speech, language, & swallowing private practice located in Marriottsville, MD.
Barbara received her Bachelor of Science (1990) and Master of Arts (1991) degrees from Loyola University in Baltimore, MD. For more than 28 years as an Speech-Language Pathologist, Barbara has been helping people of all ages improve their speech, feeding, eating, swallowing, & language challenges. She was trained by the IAOM in Orofacial Myology in 2013 and a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®) in 2016. She is licensed in Maryland and Virginia.
Barbara has a love of learning in order to help her clients! She has earned 11 consecutive ACEs (Award for Continuing Education=70+ contact hours over a 3 year period) from ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association).
Barbara has achieved specialty training in the following techniques & methods: IAOM Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®), TOTs (Tethered Oral Tissues), Advanced Lightwire Functional (ALF) appliance level 1 by Drs. Bronson of the ALF Educational Institute, PROMPT Bridging level 2, Beckman Level 1 & 2 Oral Motor Advanced protocols, Voice Gym, Upledger’s Cranial Sacral Therapy levels 1-2, Myofascial Release (CIAO), Rosenfeld-Johnson’s Talk Tools hierarchies, Lori Overland’s Pre/Feeding approach, Kaufman’s word approximation techniques, Food Chaining, Toomey's Advanced Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approach to feeding, Suzanne Evans Morris' Mealtime strategies, Fast ForWord, Wilson reading, Michele Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking methods, Interactive Metronome, T.E.A.C.C.H, A.E.I.O.U. (Johanason), and a variety of other methods.
She evaluates and treats clients from birth to adults with the following diagnoses: Autism spectrum disorders, Apraxia, Tongue tie, ADHD, Stuttering, Down syndrome, Cerebral palsy, Genetic diagnoses, Congenital diagnoses, Complex medical diagnoses, Picky/challenging eating, Feeding, & Swallowing (Dysphagia), Language-Based Learning Disability, Specific Language Impairment, Auditory/ Language Processing, Sound Errors/ Articulation, & other diagnoses. As a COM®, she treats & balances the orofacial muscles involved in TMD (Tempro Mandibular Joint Dysfunction), OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea), UARS (Upper Airway Restrictive Syndrom), &/or SDB (Sleep Disordered Breathing).
Help Me Speak, LLC accepts BCBS/Carefirst, Kaiser, pediatric Maryland Medicaid insurance plans, & private pay.
During her extensive career, Barbara has worked in the following settings: the Kennedy Krieger School (lower, middle, & extended day high school), Skilled Nursing facilities, Greater Baltimore Hospital Center (formerly North Arundel Hospital), acute care, subacute rehab, outpatient clinics, Mt Washington Pediatric home care, Adventist Home Health Care (adults), VNA Home Care (pediatrics/adults), Howard County Public Schools, & Loyola University (Clinical Supervisor & Adjunct Faculty).
Professional Associations:
American Speech -Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM)
American Academy of Private Practitioners in Speech Pathology & Audiology (AAPPSPA)
Location
2500 Wallington Way, Suite 103
Marriottsville, MD 21104