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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 15 years 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.

​In recent years, Annie has developed a specialty with accent modification, working with actors, medical professionals, business people, and others to change the way they speak.  

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.

As a singer herself, Annie finds it fun and interesting to use those skills in combination with her speech pathology skills to assist singers with voice issues, such as nodules, hoarseness, post-intubation damage, and post-COVID changes.

Sam King-Diener, Speech Language Pathologist

About Sam
Samantha “Sam” King-Diener is a speech-language pathologist who currently holds ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence and Maryland state license in the area of speech language pathology. She obtained her B.S. in Speech Pathology and Audiology at West Virginia University before completing her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology at Gallaudet University where she gained clinical proficiency in ASL.

Sam previously worked for Howard County Public Schools and has a strong understanding of the educational services available to families and loves collaborated with HCPSS SLPs. 

Sam has interests in the areas of autism, child language, D/deafness, feeding, phonology, and literacy in no particular order. Being a graduate of Gallaudet University, the university for the D/deaf and hard-of-hearing, Sam has unique skills and experience working with persons with various hearing levels- including ASL users, hearing aid users, cochlear implant users, and all the shades in between. 

Sam also loves keeping up-to-date on the recent research in her areas of interest and working on incorporating those new findings into play-based practice. She is certified in Hanen’s More That Words program, has completed Meaningful Speech’s course on Gestalt Language Processing (and has all of Marge Blanc’s books), and completed the AEIUO feeding course which focuses on non-behavoiralistic methods of feeding therapy for children with all types of feeding difficulties. 
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Most of all, Sam is passionate about giving her clients the tools to be the best communicators possible!
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Jess Lee, Speech-Language Pathologist

About Jess
Jess earned her B.A. in Hearing and Speech Sciences and her M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has had the privilege of working with clients at the University of Maryland Hearing and Speech Clinic and the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus' Department of Rehabilitation. Her internship experience at Blue Jellyfish only deepened her commitment to this field and this exceptional practice.

Jess’ clinical interests span a wide range, and she is committed to staying abreast of the latest research and techniques in the field. She is particularly drawn to language learning, autism, Gestalt language processing, phonology, reading and decoding (experienced with The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing®️ [LiPS®️] program), stuttering, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and feeding.
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One of the aspects Jess values most in her work is honoring cultural and linguistic diversity, a passion nurtured through her own lived experiences and her training in UMD's Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Emphasis Program. She is fluent in Korean and has basic proficiency in Spanish and Mandarin. Above all, Jess is dedicated to helping her clients feel empowered and joyful as communicators through holistic and personalized care.

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