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Linda is amazing with my son! She quickly identifies his interests and uses them to motivate his performances during sessions. His speech is improving rapidly! I love that Linda is more than a speech therapist. She has an incredible gift of working with children who may have behavior challenges. We have been to many speech therapists. It's nice to have found a therapist who is so successful with my son.
Happy Mom to a Little Chatterbox
Your kindness and compassion brought God's blessing to our days in a special way! What you do makes a difference! We are crazy about you! Thank you for loving me just as I am and helping me strive to communicate better....
A beautiful down syndrome blessing
Linda has been the Speech Therapist contracted to my son's charter school for four years. I have watched my son's vocabulary grow and his understanding of language terms, function and use increase because of the time Linda has spent with him weekly. She is a caring and loving person whose love for the children she serves is evident in her work. My son adores her and we will miss her weekly interaction with him now that our school has closed. We can only hope that his IEP needs will be served in the future by someone as knowledgeable and professional as Linda.
A very satisfied Mom of a special needs boy
Hats off to an amazing speech teacher!! My son has struggled with his "R's" for a long time. Linda was able to teach him a technique with his tongue, and wow! Thanks for making speech fun and also working so hard with him.
Melissa, Satisfied Mom
Over the past four years Linda Radcliffe has served the students at our school that were in need of Speech intervention. Mrs. Radcliffe has always displayed a nurturing spirit and her use of innovative technology helped our students achieve their goals in Speech therapy. These children, my own son included, were always actively engaged and were eager to work with Linda each week. I highly recommend Mrs. Radcliffe's services, without reservation, to any parent who is seeking Speech therapy for their child.
Principal, Footprints Christian Academy
I met Mrs. Radcliffe two years ago when I was a teacher at Footprints Christian Academy. I witnessed firsthand the amazing things that she was able to do with my students. She is a very kind and patient lady but firm when needed with her students. She has the ability to help students reach a potential that even they did not know was possible. She always talks to them in a kind and assuring way that puts them at ease. My students loved her and looked forward to seeing her on her visits. She was very informative to me as a teacher and gave me valuable input about my students. She also offered ideas to help my students with speech impairments. I feel very fortunate to have met Mrs. Radcliffe and to have worked with her and I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking an effective and genuine Speech Therapist for their child.
Teacher, Footprints Christian Academy
I know this...All anyone has to do is talk to Linda about what she does and witness her enthusiasm and love for what she does and the clients she sees. It goes far beyond what people expect! I admire Linda so much for that!
Charles Anderson
My son is non-verbal but it was obvious that he and Linda bonded right from the start. He loves her. He always wants to go to speech. Even when he has been 'under the weather' and misses other functions he does not want to miss his time with Linda. He is typing more. He wants to type more. He has started typing emails to friends and family. We could not be happier with the love and care our son receives with Linda and the effort she has made in advancing his communication efforts.
Very satisfied Mom!
I have known Linda in a professional capacity, as we work together periodically in an inpatient rehabilitation facility. Linda is very dedicated to her patients and their families, and she always strives to deliver the highest quality clinical services. Linda is a very skilled clinician with many years of diverse experience and she is motivated to achieve the best clinical outcomes for her patients. She is a very diligent associate and works well in an interdisciplinary team environment. She always wears a smile and has words of encouragement for those in her care.
Occupational Therapist/Director of Rehabilitation
Southland Health and Rehab
Thank you for your time! Your effort! And great energy!! You've made an enormous positive difference! You have been a bright rainbow in our (sometimes) clouds!! You have caused a wonderful ripple effect! Thanks for always having an open heart-we love you!
A happy Mom and her precious girl
Linda has had a tremendous, positive impact on my son, Connor. Her compassion, knowledge, experience, and technique have all increased and improved my son's speech more than any previous therapy. She is truly professional and so much more! Her passion for helping children, expecially those with special needs, is evident in the way she continuously creates new ways to challange them - using technology or other innovative approaches to keep their interest and keep them motivated. She is delightful to work with and communicates extremely well with parents. She keeps me well informed and also suggests things we can do at home to help. Agape Speech Therapy is also a wonderful, welcoming environment. Linda provides a happy, secure place where kids can climb, swing, and play in a very calming and relaxing atmosphere. My daughter loves accompanying my son to therapy! The fact she also has a kind, gently, trained therapy dog named Maggie is a bonus!!! We cannot say enough good things about Linda! We love her!!!
Cheryl Phillips
This morning I had a difficult time getting my son ready for speech therapy. I finally said "I guess you don't want to go see Maggie today". My son said "Maggie? Oh yes! I a so excited!" He hurried to get ready - including his shoes and raced to the car.
Maggie assists Ms. Linda in therapy and inspires my son to 'teach' her his new sounds. Maggie and Ms. Linda have been a great team in advancing my son's articulation.
Ms. Linda gives a lot of encouragement for great speech and it makes my son thrilled to tell me what a good job he does.
At the end of every visit, my son hugs Maggie goodbye until we see her again. It is very sweet.
One Happy Mom
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Karen Shearer (Monday, 16 June 2014 15:55)
I just wanted to tell you that you make me smile! I always love how thoughtful and caring you are. It exudes from you like a beam. Love it. Keep Smiling! Thinking of you!
~ Karen Shearer
Ashley Weston (Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:39)
I never thought to wonder whether or not my child would talk. Communication was just one of those milestones I awaited with anticipation and excitement. Being a parent the second time around came with a lot less stress and I was enjoying every minute of it. After all, by now I was a pro! Jasper’s words came. He said “momma” and “dadda” and “NO.” As the months passed, he talked in full sentences to us! He was becoming a chatty little guy and had the cutest voice!
I noticed something was “off”, for lack of a better word, when Jasper was about 2.5/3 years old. He loved getting stickers from Publix and our car windows could prove it!! I decided it was time for him to ask for the sticker at check out. He would talk to me about them our whole shopping trip but had never asked for one. I told him if he wanted a sticker, he had to ask and I wasn’t going to give in! It was almost a year before Jasper got the sticker he so desperately wanted.
At first, I thought Jasper was just shy around strangers but as time went on it was apparent that this was something more than just a shy kid. His Sunday school teacher grabbed me at pick up one day to ask if there was anything they needed to know about Jasper. She went on to tell me that in the year that Jasper had been in that class, he had never spoken a word! What? How was that possible? He talked at home! My husband and I had made the decision to homeschool at the time so Jasper was not in a pre-K program. He talked to the other kids in the neighborhood but did he talk to any other adult? I started to become really concerned.
I am so thankful that my oldest son, Tripp, was seeing Linda Radcliff for some other speech concerns. Linda knew exactly what we were dealing with when I expressed my concern about Jasper. She said it sounded like selective mutism. She is such a wealth of knowledge and helped our family understand that we needed to be patient with Jasper and that any adult he interacts with needs to be patient as well.
We ended up moving to Tampa and enrolling Jasper in public school. He finally found his voice in the second grade and hasn't stopped talking since. I am so grateful to Mrs. Radcliff for talking me through those scary days when I wondered if Jasper would ever speak to his teachers. He went from silence to holding up notecards and later to whispering to his teacher. It was at the end of first grade when I received a tearful phone call from our principal saying, “Jasper just read a story to his class!” All he needed was time and patience.