Helping Your Child Put Their Ideas Into Words

SLP Maggie Phillips taking data

Hi, I’m Maggie, a speech language pathologist (SLP) located in Wake Forest, NC. As an SLP trained in the science of reading, my mission is to help kids communicate successfully through spoken and printed language.

What We Work On

Language Skills

  • Improving grammar skills like past tense ed

  • Expanding sentence length and complexity

  • Telling stories sequentially with all the necessary details

  • Understanding and using more complex vocabulary

Speech Sounds

  • Improving the way they say the sounds in words, like /k/, /r/, or /s/

  • Improving speech clarity, or how well you understand your child

  • Building phonological skills, including how a child perceives the sounds in words

Reading

  • Letter/sound naming and recognition

  • Phonics

  • Phonological awareness (rhyming, syllable counting, etc.)

  • Reading words, sentences, and stories

  • Understanding what was read

Writing

  • Spelling

  • Generating sentences

  • Planning and organizing written work

  • Including the appropriate grammatical elements and punctuation in writing

Executive Function

  • Planning and organizing tasks like essays

  • Identifying working memory strategies to support comprehension

  • Self-monitoring work for accuracy and time management

  • Initiating challenging tasks like reading

Stuttering

  • Spelling

  • Generating sentences

  • Planning and organizing written work

  • Including the appropriate grammatical elements and punctuation in writing

Child participating in virtual speech therapy (teletherapy)

IN PERSON OR VIRTUAL THERAPY


We know that family life is busy. We also know that speech therapy is important. That’s why we offer both in person and online speech therapy.

Check out our treatment page to learn more about our treatment options.

How to get started

  1. Schedule your initial consultation.

  2. Complete an evaluation.

  3. Start treatment.

We accept payment via HSA, FSA, credit card, cash, and check. A superbill for out of network coverage can be provided upon request.

SLP Maggie Phillips playing with child in front of bookshelf

Meet Maggie

Hi there! I’m Maggie Phillips M.A., CCC-SLP. I’m a pediatric speech pathologist who’s passionate about the intersection of language, literacy, and speech sound disorders. I want to help your child communicate easily with their friends and family, and I want to help them learn to love reading!

What our families are saying

  • "Without hesitation, we wholeheartedly recommend Maggie to any parent seeking the best possible start for their child's speech development journey. She truly is a gem, and we are forever grateful for the impact she has had on our son's life."

  • "We always appreciated Maggie’s ability to connect with our son, inform and provide us with resources, and genuinely caring demeanor. She responds promptly to questions and is great at communicating with us about our son's progress and how we can work with him at home... We saw a huge improvement in his fluency and overall confidence."

  • "Maggie is responsive, kind, fun, creative, thoughtful, and goes above and beyond for her clients. She changed our lives for the better with her amazingly high quality speech sessions. So grateful to her and all that she's done for our family. In the two years she worked with our daughter, she went from mostly gesturing and using isolated words to using sentences, retelling stories, and ticking off goal after goal. I can't say enough about how talented and hardworking she is!"

What Makes Into Words Different?

Learn to read with books, colored pencils, alphabet

Convenient.

Research shows that the traditional method of one long weekly therapy session is not always the best option (Schmitt, et.al, 2017).

Our sessions, available in-person and via teletherapy, vary from quick 10-minute meetings multiple times a week to more extensive 45-minute ones. Check out our treatment page to learn more!

Girl reading independently

Individualized.

At Into Words Therapy, your child is our priority. We care about learning their favorite color and hearing about their summer vacation.

We keep a small caseload so we can stay current with the latest practices and thoroughly prepare for and engage with your child.

Hands flipping through evidence

Evidence-Based.

Into Words Therapy values our field’s science and employs it every day. We stay up to date through continuing education courses, journal clubs, and resources like The Informed SLP.

We're passionate about sharing our therapy techniques to caregivers, ensuring you understand the 'why' behind our approaches.

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“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

Winston S. Churchill