Family Testimonials
"Wenshin is absolutely amazing. She works with my son in a different way in order to facilitate his unique language acquisition path. My son feels happy and confident when working with Wenshin and we have seen the progress he has made. After the session, Wenshin also gives us a lot of strategies to use and materials to read at home. I just wish we have started a lot earlier."
- Ms. J, parent
"We're very grateful that we found Wenshin among other bilingual SLPs in the San Diego area. We reached out to her for an evaluation when our 4yo had limited verbal communication in his primary language Mandarin and didn't start to speak English after 16 months in preschool/UTK. Wenshin spent hours in a thorough evaluation including parent intake, play based evaluation, and listening to parent provided conversation samples. She gave us insight into the fact that our little one is a gestalt language processor (GLP) and coached us on how to help him with language acquisition in both Mandarin and English according to the natural language acquisition (NLA) framework. Compared to the testing-based speech evaluation method (of a short duration) used by our other in-network providers, her evaluation was more natural to children and insightful to parents. Wenshin comes to our home regularly for child led play style therapy. She keeps detailed notes and provides timely feedback after each therapy session. She invests time in answering our questions and teaching us how to model simple phrases and mix-and-match word play to help our little one in daily life. Our little one likes her very much and feels that she’s a teacher/friend and is willing to open himself up to talk to her. He has made great progress in English and Mandarin proficiencies in a few months. Each time he has fresh utterances and more complex verbal expressions, we and Wenshin cheer up."
- Alice, parent
"Our 7-years old child, who is on the spectrum, does not have speech but often jargons when something has to be expressed, like happiness, sadness, anger, or being confused. OUR therapy journey (highlighted in upper case because in my opinion the therapies should be directed to parents/caregivers most of the time) started 6 years ago after we noticed hypotonia and developmental delay in our child and had been filled with a lot of depression/frustration until we switched to a neurodiversity-affirming method. In our eyes, speech therapy has always been the hardest part. And any attempt trying to forge alphabets/words into my child’s brain had failed but only made things worse, and finally discouraged my child to use several different AAC systems offered to her (from low to high tech). Wenshin literally revolutionized our strategies to do speech therapy. After only one year of the collaboration, we noticed a few big changes: my child is spontaneously using her AAC device instead repelling it like before and communicates with us every day and more and more of them fit the concurrent situations, i.e. conveying what my child wants at the moment; using AAC for my child has become a happy and pressure-free task for us. All these progresses are resulted from the child-led therapy Wenshin is using. In every therapy session, Wenshin creates an environment that my child is comfortable with, has full freedom to engage or disengage, and is encouraged to speak out for herself by any accessible means. We are so glad to find the right path to support my child when communication is needed. Without Wenshin, we probably had to struggle for a longer period of time. Thank you very much, Wenshin."
- Mr. D, parent
"I've enjoyed talking to Wenshin who provided various advice on speech improvement for my 2-year-old son. He was a late talker and I sought out Wenshin for her parent consultation service. I can tell Wenshin is passionate about this field just from the questions she asked me. She was patient and kind and gave me numerous tips to implement to encourage my son to talk. I highly recommend trying Wenshin out for pediatric speech therapy."
- Mrs. C, parent
“At 18 months, our son, Marshall, was really only saying one word: “ba” for ball. By the time we were able to start services at 20 months, he had just started saying a few more words like “mama” and “dada”, but he was still way behind his milestones. Wenshin came into our home for the first time masked, friendly, and bubbly, literally and figuratively. She quickly gained Marshall’s trust and friendship through the delight of bubbles, even saying “pop” as they giggled together. Wenshin made sure to give me the tools that I needed to help Marshall succeed. She changed the way that I communicated with him to help correct his speech delay. After 6 months, he was meeting his milestones and we reached our goal! He now loves talking to his teachers and friends at school and driving his parents crazy. We were so lucky to have such a fantastic Speech Therapist like Wenshin!”
- Erica, parent
「孩子的語言遲緩、仿說，我們帶他嘗試過不同機構不同的治療師，但一直是遇到文馨後才開始有顯著的進步與改善！我的孩子每週都很期待和文馨的speech session，因為他感覺自己說的話被了解、不懂得表達的想法，文馨也會model示範講給他，讓他學習怎麼正確且自然的用語言表達自己。Child-led therapy的方式，也真的讓孩子能在玩樂中自然、自主的學習，而非強迫或是不自然的制式化語言。文馨也會教導我們家長如何在日常生活中扮演「偵探」的角色。去細想孩子想表達的，用小孩的第一人稱去示範講出來，幫孩子建立更多的語言資料庫。也因為我們家長自已學會改變和孩子說話的方式，孩子的進步也更多了！謝謝文馨總是充滿耐心，也非常好溝通。真的可以很放心的把孩子交給文馨！我真的真的真的非常推薦！」
- Ms. C, parent
「也许很难一概而论，和自闭谱系群体交流引起的焦虑、困惑甚至情绪奔溃是因为家长或照护者无法理解被看护者的行为，他们大脑的处理范式和这些行为发生抵触而引起的。但是至少在我的谱系儿童照护的路途中是这样的。当我放弃那些范式、停止告诉我的孩子怎么做是对的，而只做简单的推理去尝试理解我的谱系孩子的时候，我的心里压力减轻很多。让孩子学会用语言交流一直是我们最想实现的目标。可能跟大部分家庭一样，最开始我也包括我的家人想的是让孩子开口说话（因为日思夜想，我们隔三差五就梦到我孩子叽里呱啦地在说话）这样的心态给我和孩子都带来了很大的心理负担，直接的结果就是我们尝试的各种语言治疗的方案在我孩子那里都行不通，我孩子甚至很反感使用AAC平板。文馨的加入让我开始让我们重新审视过去为了开启语言做出的那些努力。第一次交流就让我击碎了那个最大的误解：孩子只有开口讲话才能交流。后续的合作让我意识到我们应该做的是鼓励孩子去交流，无论使用什么方式，手势、jargoning、肢体动作或者语言交流辅具，而不是强迫孩子去开口说单词和句子。语言教学方式的改变带来了惊人的效果：我孩子开始主动使用AAC平板来表达，表达的句子越来越契合当下的情境，而且她自己口语也越来越多。我们很欣喜能有文馨作为我们孩子的语言老师。我们也衷心的希望每一个需要SLP帮助的家庭都能遇到文馨或者和她有同样理念的人。」
- Mr. D, parent
「我一开始感到好焦虑因为我三岁儿子还不说话，文馨给了我最大的帮助，她不断鼓励引导我，跟我说我做得很好，也教了我很多有效的陪玩方式。我儿子超喜欢她，她具备经验、耐心、专业、 温柔。 在她的教导下，我儿子有很大的进步。」 - Ms. H, parent
「我們兒子4歲時開始接受文馨老師的發音校正，幾個月後就有明顯的進步，兒子現在對說中文感到有興趣！非常謝謝文馨老師專業且細心的指導。」
- Mrs. L, parent