T H E   T E A M

Our Founder

Annie Hasting - Owner, Speech-Language Pathologist

About Annie

​Annie Hasting is a speech-language pathologist holding national ASHA certification and Maryland licensure. After growing up in Washington, D.C., and southern Virginia, she attained her B.S. and M.S. from Brigham Young University. Annie's greatest joy is to help others, and helping children and families communicate better makes her life more meaningful.

Annie has well over a decade of experience working with children and adults who need assistance with improving communication. She has worked in early intervention with children birth-five, elementary school, middle and high school, and with adults in an acute neurological rehabilitation center. Annie has worked with individuals with many different speech and language disorders, including autism, apraxia, dysarthria, aphasia, learning disabilities, language delay/impairment, phonological disorders, articulation delay/disorder, stuttering, and chromosomal differences. 

Fluent in American Sign Language and well versed in auditory-verbal therapeutic techniques, Annie enjoys working with deaf and hard or hearing children who use cochlear implants, hearing aids, or no hearing assistance.

Annie has a particular interest/expertise in helping children with severe speech sound disorders learn to speak intelligibly. She has taught workshops around the state of Maryland to assist other speech-language pathologists in working with severely unintelligible children.

Autism is another area of particular interest and expertise. Annie is certified in Hanen's More Than Words and TalkAbility programs; she also enjoys using strategies from Floortime/DIR. Annie's autistic clients have incredible outcomes.