Simone Speer, M.S., CCC-SLP

Owner, Speech-Language Pathologist

Simone is a state licensed and national certified speech-language pathologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Linguists from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her Master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Portland State University. Simone believes that children learn best when they are actively engaged and internally motivated. She uses a child-led, play-based therapy model to achieve this engagement and foster an authentic connection to further support therapy progress.

Simone has experience working with children birth to 18 years of age in a variety of settings including private practice, teletherapy, home health, and school-based. Her practice has focused on supporting early language development, pediatric feeding disorders, gestalt language processing, speech sound disorders, and preschool- and school-aged language disorders. Simone has completed further training for early intervention, feeding disorders, and gestalt language processing. She is a Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) Trained Clinician and is certified in Hanen - It Take Two To Talk and Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding.

In her spare time, Simone enjoys reading, crocheting, taking her dog, Nico, to the beach, and cuddling with her cat, Hercules.