The Talk Speech Therapy

UNLOCK the TALK-SLP 

Speech, Language, and Dysphagia Therapy Services

(765) 203-1405

Serving Kokomo, Indiana 

and surrounding counties 

A Caring, Supportive, and Nurturing Approach to Speech Therapy

Working with families, children, and adults to overcome a wide range of communication challenges.

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Dedicated to Treating Speech and Language Disorders and Swallowing Conditions

Rebecca Hickey, MS/CCC, SLP

Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist/ ASHA CCC Accredited

 

UNLOCK the TALK- SLP SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES works with families, children, and adults in and around Kokomo, Indiana overcome a wide range of communication challenges. To achieve optimal treatment success, we make sure to engage parents, and caregivers, so everyone involved understands every step of the process.

Mission Statement

Unlock the Talk’s primary aim is to provide quality, personalized services, in a positive setting, for maximized progress toward our client’s goals…

 

At Unlock the Talk we place an emphasis on functional communication strategies and the carryover of new skills through meaningful interaction. The education of our clients, their families, and caregivers is paramount to our therapy program.

Therapist and Lady

Helping Improve Speech and Communication Skills

 

We evaluate and treat the speech and language conditions of adults and children in and around Kokomo, Indiana. Our services feature the following options and areas of treatment:

Evaluation and Treatment of:

  • Speech and Language Disorders
  • Apraxia/Motor Planning
  • Dysphagia

Conditions Addressed:

  • Dysphagia/Swallowing

  • Voice disorders

  • Accent Modification

  • Cognitive-Linguistic Impairments

  • Developmental Speech and Language Conditions

  • Dysarthria/ Weakness

Services Featuring:

  • Family Training for Carryover
  • Private Settings
  • Neurodivergent friendly therapy
  • Augmentative Alternative Communication Strategies and Tools
  • Focus on functional communication
Specializing in neurological language disorders and delays:
  • CVA (Stroke)
  • TBI. (Traumatic Brain Injury)
  • ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

  • PD (Parkinson’s Disease)

  • CP (Cerebral Palsy)
  • Down’s Syndrome

Testimonials

Rebecca started UNLOCK theTALK- SLP SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES, seeking a better way to provide speech Therapy services. She includes families and caregivers in the therapy process, to maximize progress and carryover of skills from the therapy room to the “real world” settings.

“My name is Lydia Coalburn and I am a speech therapy assistant for Kokomo Area Special Education Cooperative. I was assigned to Rebecca Hickey as a speech assistant in the fall of 2019 and am under her supervision for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year.

 

Rebecca has been one of the most exceptional speech language pathologists that I have ever had the pleasure of working with. She is incredibly passionate about her clients and has been one of Kokomo Special Education Cooperative’s greatest advocates for their needs.

 

As a supervisor, Rebecca has been paramount to my personal development as a speech assistant. She has gone above and beyond the responsibilities of a supervisor to make me as qualified and competent as I can be for our clients. She avidly pursues continuing education for both herself and I.

 

Rebecca never stops learning and never stops teaching those around her. She is passionate about staying up to date on new developments and techniques within the field and has permanently instilled the importance of such an attitude in myself.

 

Rebecca consistently makes nothing short of extraordinary progress with our most challenging cases. She taps into a wide array of methodologies to provide her clients with every possible avenue toward success. Rebecca relishes a challenge and the word “impossible” is simply not in her vocabulary.

 

Rebecca employs her tenacity and considerable expertise to show her clients the very best in speech therapy.”

“I have had the pleasant opportunity in getting to know Ms. Becky Hickey through the past few years as she has worked with my child in the class room setting. Ms. Hickey is very dedicated, and it is obvious that she cares deeply for the students that she works with. I am very appreciative of the way she interacts with my own child, and always goes above and beyond.

Ms. Hickey sees potential in my child that goes way beyond a diagnosis. She strives to teach my child communication even when it may seem difficult or even appears to be impossible. She works hard to find creative ways to teach my child, and has never gives up that goal, even when most have and do.

 

It is a pleasure to know her, and I give her my full recommendation.”

– Angie Hinton – Parent

“This is a letter of recommendation for Rebecca Hickey. I’ve been privileged to know Rebecca since 1996, meeting her in her professional role as a Speech Therapist at a local ECF. Her ease at communication and relational abilities to the residents stood out as they responded to her in the therapy setting.

She was outgoing with her coworkers, also, myself, included. As a nurse practitioner, I interfaced with Rebecca again at another facility years later and she consistently worked with the elderly in her easy, relational manner to facilitate the residents to achieve their goals.

As years passed, I reconnected with Rebecca in a non-professional environment as she joined a hospice sewing ministry I am a part of. She benefited the group with her organizational and personal skills, volunteering to do whatever needed to get the projects completed.

Rebecca is delightful and thoroughly enjoys working with clients–no matter what age and has an ability to find out what is the best way to reach them and their maximum potential.

Thank you for this opportunity.

Sincerely,”

– Deb Zent, MSN, RN, ANP

“My name is Lydia Coalburn and I am a speech therapy assistant for Kokomo Area Special Education Cooperative. I was assigned to Rebecca Hickey as a speech assistant in the fall of 2019 and am under her supervision for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year.

Rebecca has been one of the most exceptional speech language pathologists that I have ever had the pleasure of working with. She is incredibly passionate about her clients and has been one of Kokomo Special Education Cooperative’s greatest advocates for their needs.

As a supervisor, Rebecca has been paramount to my personal development as a speech assistant. She has gone above and beyond the responsibilities of a supervisor to make me as qualified and competent as I can be for our clients. She avidly pursues continuing education for both herself and I.

Rebecca never stops learning and never stops teaching those around her. She is passionate about staying up to date on new developments and techniques within the field and has permanently instilled the importance of such an attitude in myself.

Rebecca consistently makes nothing short of extraordinary progress with our most challenging cases. She taps into a wide array of methodologies to provide her clients with every possible avenue toward success. Rebecca relishes a challenge and the word “impossible” is simply not in her vocabulary.

Rebecca employs her tenacity and considerable expertise to show her clients the very best in speech therapy.”

– Lydia Coalburn, SLP-A