About Us
We started our practice to help Cleveland, Ohio families in their natural home environment.
Our Story
Officially incorporated in 2019, Chelsea and Olivia met at a prior service working together — both natural-born communicators. Children and adolescents were thriving in good programs at school. However, generalization of skills at home and in community settings was challenging. Children with complex needs or those on the autism spectrum pay close attention to the setting and the staff working with them. Totally Speech was created to support families and to provide them the opportunity to be partners in their children's speech and language goals.
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Who We Are
Proudly serving Cleveland's West Side residents.
Olivia Gimperling, M.A., CCC-SLP
Co-Founder
Olivia Gimperling, M.A., CCC-SLP is a licensed, certified, and registered speech-language pathologist. Before practicing, she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Ohio State University and her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from Florida State University in 2011. She was licensed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is licensed to practice in the state of Ohio.
Olivia has extensive experience as both a private practice, public schools, and organizational setting clinician. Along with her expertise working with children with complex needs, Olivia is also interested in working with executive functioning and dyslexia. Olivia's relationship with language coupled with her organizational skills is the driving force behind the creation of the Speech–Language Plans to help families and providers gain insight into the development of language programing.
Chelsea Girgash, M.A., CCC-SLP
Co-Founder
Chelsea Girgash, M.A., CCC-SLP is a licensed, certified, and registered speech-language pathologist. She has a Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education from Wright State University in 2014 and graduated from the University of Akron's Speech-Language Pathology Program with a Master's Degree in 2017. She is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is licensed to practice in the state of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Her professional experience includes working primarily with children, and takes joy in providing the best family centered services possible. Chelsea's approach to therapy revolves around building the trust with parents and actively involving the extended family and team. She has a passion for social pragmatic communication disorders, with helping the children to provide functional communication strategies to express needs and wants.
