​"Because of Brandy, my son’s future will forever be changed. Her methods were exactly what my son and our family needed. Before working with her I thought all speech therapists were the same and I would’ve been fine with whomever we had worked with, but after our time with Brandy I realized that my son moved so quickly in picking up speech and language because of her approach. Her knowledge also helped me communicate more effectively with my son’s audiologist, which had a huge impact on his progress. I cannot say enough good things about Brandy." - Juile J.

Welcome to The Emphasis Project

The Emphasis Project offers, both, a wholistic treatment approach in developing Listening, Language, and Learning skills as well as a collaborative of carefully selected professionals and services supporting the full scope of presenting needs in the family and child.  A merger of Speech-Language Pathology, Neuroscience, & Mental Health.

Shifting the "Emphasis" of traditional Speech-Language Therapy to family-centered lifestyles of learning.  To treating the root rather than the symptoms.  To treating the whole child rather than the diagnosis.  To addressing the needs of the whole family rather than just the child.  A "Project" that's pioneering a different way.

A Whole Brain, Whole Child, Whole Family Approach

The Emphasis Project has developed a Whole Brain, Whole Child, Whole Family Approach to supporting the children and families we serve.  We call it Emphasis LOVE.  Lifelines of Vital Emphasis (LOVE) to create Lifestyles of Valued Experiences (LOVE).
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What is Emphasis LOVE?
Lifelines Of Vital Emphasis to create Lifestyles Of Valued Experiences

Language LOVE

An emphasis on a family-centered approach to speech and language development through lifestyles of learning. 
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Listening LOVE

An emphasis on a family-centered approach to establishing listening & spoken language skills in children who are deaf/hard of hearing.

Learning LOVE

An emphasis on learning and literacy disabilities using an executive function and root-cause approach, including a comprehensive learning eval.

Limbic LOVE

An emphasis on identifying and meeting the mental health needs of the children AND the families served.
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Speech-Language Therapy Outside the Box

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Our brains were designed to work integratively and systematically.  Wholistically.  Yet traditional therapy supports are often quite cookie cutter in application.  Therapies in a box, if you will.  We tend to put talking and listening in boxes alongside writing and walking (SLP, OT, and PT). Another box covers learning and thinking (academia and special education).  Reading often gets a box all to itself. And tucked away behind all of those you might find a box for behavior and emotion, yet few will open it and its contents are often misunderstood. 

The sad reality is, this often results in a conglomerate of expensive and time-consuming "bandaids" yielding poor functional application and limited longitudinal benefit.  Translation, children in therapy and special education services for years and years as root causes go unaddressed, integrative support measures remain ignored, and the child's mental health suffers accordingly.  All while the emotional needs of the families and caregivers of these children rarely garner consideration in the equation of establishing best practice...
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...Optimal child development doesn't work like that.
Optimal family dynamics don't work like that.
Neither does The Emphasis Project.​

Serving the Middle Tennessee areas of Franklin, Brentwood, Nolensville, Thompson’s Station, Nashville, Green Hills, 
Belle Meade, Hendersonville, Mt. Juliet, Gallatin, & White House.  In home, office, & schools.

Welcome to
The Emphasis Project
Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go,
​And when he is old he will not depart from it."