Nina Reardon-Reeves, Fluency Specialist & Speech-Language Pathologist
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Testimonials

Read what Nina's seminar participants, kids in therapy, their parents, consultation clients, and customers have to say:

From Seminar Participants:

How wonderful to attend a workshop from such a fabulous presenter! Thank you for going into so much meaningful and practical depth…What an impressive SLP, speaker, & counselor!
- Mia Elliott; San Antonio, TX

This was an incredible presentation that gave me such insightful information regarding how to work with individuals who stutter. Thanks for the inspiring presentation!
- Rob Reichhardt; Cincinnati, OH

I just want to thank you again for the outstanding job you did in presenting "School Age Stuttering Therapy".  I always appreciate listening to someone who knows their subject so well and, more importantly, can convey that knowledge to an audience in such an engaging and enthusiastic manner. I know from my years of attending CEU sessions and in my work at the University of Cincinnati what a talent you have, and I wanted to be sure that you knew that your hard work was appreciated and valued!
- Carolyn Rudolph; Cincinnati, OH

I attended your seminar yesterday in Houston and my therapy today has been eye opening. Thank you so much for the incredibly helpful information and insight into stuttering therapy. [Stuttering] has been a weak area for me, but now I am excited about it. Tomorrow's plan - "SPEECH MAN". Thanks for all the work you do to make my job as a therapist easier and more rewarding!
- Lori Hazlewood, M.S., CCC-SLP

I attended your Portland, OR seminar last Friday and I wanted to thank you for all the practical information you shared. You reinforced what I already knew, and I learned many new therapy ideas. It has been a long time since I have come away from a seminar feeling like I learned so much. I feel so much more confident that I can help my students who stutter. Thank You! Come back to Portland soon!
- Eve Liebman, M.S., CCC-SLP

Your workshop helped to clarify so many things I was unsure of and to remind me of several important points I had forgotten. Your presentation was so well-organized and created such a wonderful template on which I could base my therapy. Your passion for this field is very inspiring and validating.
-Mary Ann E.; Amarillo, TX

Nina Reardon-Reeves was wonderful! I haven't been so mentally engaged in a full-day seminar in a long time. She was captivating with her humor, personal clinical experiences, activities that engaged the audience, and giving us the actual tools for stuttering therapy. Better than my fluency class in graduate school!
-Dana Drake; Lake Oswego, OR

Great presentation! Extremely knowledgeable on topic, presented in a very organized fashion; talented speaker. Very practical activities presented were wonderful. Very thorough!
-Kilgore TX Preschool presentation

Awesome! Presentation was interesting, practical and applicable to public school. Thank you!
-D. Morton; Nacodoches, TX

From Children in Therapy:

You are the best speech teacher that I ever had.  We had great times together.  Our notebook has all our memories.  Thank you for the best time with you.
- Paul R.; Shorewood IL

Mrs. Nina: I would like to thank you for everything you have helped me in. Thank you very much for teaching me everything and for being such an important person in my life.
-Paul R.; IL

Dear Mrs. R: Thank you for your time and effort in helping me improve my speech and stuttering. I appreciate all you've done over the years. I learned to take on my own responsibilities.
-Sarah B.; IL

Dear Mrs. Nina: Thanks for teaching me that it's ok to stutter.
-Jackson M.; Lemont , IL

From Parents of Children in Therapy:

Dear Miss Nina: You have helped not only Paul but our entire family understand and learn about stuttering. I am so glad God lead us to you. We have been truly blessed to have you in our lives . Paul is who he is today because of you. I know he'll be OK because of you.
-Patty R.; IL

Dear Mrs. Nina; Thank you for all you've done for TJ and our family. TJ has improved so much under your care and guidance and our family has learned how to communicate in a way that fosters a more secure and sensitive environment for TJ's speech challenges. I've often told friends that you were a gift sent from God and I truly believe you were an answer to our prayers.
-Cristen K.; Frisco, TX

Dear Nina: It is impossible to completely express the gratitude we feel for you. You have been such an important, influential, loving, stable, compassionate, understanding, dedicated part of our lives for the past 2 years. You have been much more than a speech/language/fluency teacher. You have been our guide; you have given me strength and a sense of composure as a parent for Benjamin. You have been a priceless part of our lives. We'll remember you always as our “Miss Nina” who was the most precious blessing we could have hoped for. Thank you for caring about Benjamin and us. Thank you for your expertise that is so powerful because of your enormous heart.
-Suzy C.; Palatine, IL

Dear Nina: It touches my heart that you have seen and felt the whole person in these children. Because of your loving and thoughtful ways, they know they are more than their stuttering and you were more than their therapist.
-Chris M.; Lemont, IL

Dear Ms. Nina: I find it hard to express how thankful we are to have found you as a therapist for our son. You have been such an invaluable source of information and support for us . Always there to reassure us, and make sure we have the tools to help our son deal with and work through his speech struggles. Thank you so much!
-Cheryl K.; Frisco, TX

From Consultation Clients:

I just wanted to THANK YOU for all you are doing and providing us with.  I have never felt this comfortable working with fluency.  I feel like my fluency kids have benefitted so much more these past two years just by using some of the things we learn in the FIGs (Fluency Interest Group meetings) and during in-services.  They are actually learning and retaining everything we talk about and most of them are getting very comfortable with their stuttering and how they deal with.  Parents are even commenting on how much more they are working on it at home and the things they are teaching them.  I had one dad tell me that he had no idea there was so much involved and will start using some of the techniques he's learned and stop telling his son to slow down.  Others have thought I was absolutely insane when I was having their child stutter on purpose until they realized why we work on that.  Parents are now more supportive than ever and tell me to bring on the homework! Again, I can't even begin to tell you how much you are appreciated!!
-Tanya A.; Garland, TX

From Customers of Nina's Books:

The best material I have ever used—and I use it for all of my elementary fluency students with good success- is the Scott Yaruss and Nina Reardon's [Reeves] The Source for Stuttering. It's based on the latest research on fluency and treatment and is simply outstanding. It's great because the scope is the whole disorder (the impairment, the child's reactions and environmental reaction), not just speech difficulties themselves. I've had students go from speech avoidance and severe stuttering to a sense of empowerment (as they understood what was happening when they stutter) and talking freely in class—with stuttering of course—in a month. Of course, they are still working on their fluency enhancing and stuttering modification techniques, but the “own” a lot of their therapy and are emotionally so much better off in a relatively short time. It's been encouraging to watch!
- Jennifer V.; Wisconsin