In-Home Speech & Language Therapy Designed to Brighten Your Child's Future

Yes, Beach Cities Speech Therapy is now Speech Sisters Therapy Network.  Bridget Hillsberg and Brooke Dwyer founded Beach Cities Speech Therapy over 12 years ago.  With a team of therapists, Beach Cities Speech Therapy has worked with hundreds of families in the South Bay of Los Angeles.

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Clients are billed directly monthly and are responsible for payment of all services billed.  While we do not bill insurance directly, we are happy to provide you with a monthly Superbill for all invoices paid.  You may submit the Superbill to your insurance company to request reimbursement.  The amount your insurance company will reimburse is dependent on your insurance plan.  We recommend you contact your insurance company to determine your reimbursement amount.  Speech Sisters Therapy Network does not contact insurance companies directly. 

No, we provide pediatric speech therapy services to children birth to 21 years of age.

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The amount of time a child is in speech therapy is highly variable and dependent on your child’s speech-language diagnosis, attention, motivation, and consistency with home practice. 

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If your child completed a speech-language evaluation with a speech-language pathologist in the last 6 months (12 months for school aged children), it is likely we can use this evaluation to create an effective treatment plan.  To determine if your child’s previous evaluation is adequate for creating an effective treatment plan, please email a copy of this evaluation to therapy@speechsisters.com

If your child is currently receiving speech therapy services outside of Speech Sisters Therapy Network, a re-evaluation is likely not necessary. A copy of your child’s latest speech-language evaluation as well as a progress report outlining your child’s progress toward measurable treatment goals is required. The evaluation and progress report can be emailed to therapy@speechsisters.com.

We do not have a freestanding clinic.  We service all our clients in their homes or in the community (ex. Daycare, school, library).  Home/community-based services allows us to provide therapy in a comfortable space, train caregivers/teachers, and allow for opportunities for the child to generalize skills to a child’s natural environment. 

We currently have clinicians that drive to the following locations in the South Bay of Los Angeles: Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, El Segundo, Hawthorne, Westchester, Lawndale, Torrance, Playa Vista and Palos Verdes, California. Locations that are more than a 20min drive from the center of Manhattan Beach including Westchester, Playa Vista, Palos Verdes, parts of Torrance, and parts of Hawthorne incur a $25 drive time charge.

The therapist your child is matched with is dependent on your child’s availability for therapy and speech-language diagnosis.  Many of our therapists specialize in specific areas of speech-language pathology. 

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All of our clinicians have Masters degrees in Speech-Language Pathology, certificates of clinical competence from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), and are licensed in the state of California.   Speech-language pathology aides, students, and clinical fellows do not provide therapeutic services at Speech Sisters Therapy Network.

While we are not affiliated directly with any schools, we have provided speech therapy services in many of the preschools in the south bay as well as some public elementary schools in their after-school program. You will need to contact the director of your child’s school to find out if they have a private and quiet space for your child to work with a speech-language pathologist.  In addition to schools, we have met clients at local parks, libraries, and offices.