Alpha Kids Therapy Services

Alpha Kids Therapy Services is a speech therapist in Alabaster, AL. The practice specializes in pediatric speech and language therapy, serving infants, children, and adolescents in Shelby County and surrounding areas. Services include comprehensive speech-language evaluations and evidenced-based speech and language therapy, with a focus on articulation disorders and language delays in late talkers. The clinic holds a rating of 5.00 based on 10 reviews.

Alpha Kids Therapy Services, LLC is a small, therapist-owned clinic that emphasizes community, connection, and personalized care. The team is led by Ashley Hamlin, MS, CCC-SLP, an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist licensed in Alabama with over a decade of experience working with children with speech and language disorders. She earned her Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Alabama in 2011 and contracts with Shelby County Schools, where she serves on the preschool developmental evaluation team. Her clinical interests include early childhood language, speech sound disorders, apraxia, gestalt language, and AAC. Emma Plunkett, M.S., CCC-SLP, also joins the practice as an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist licensed in Alabama, with a background in psychology and speech and hearing sciences from the University of South Alabama, where she also completed her Master's degree. Emma brings experience with speech-sound disorders, language delay and disorders, fluency disorders, and social communication disorder secondary to autism spectrum disorder.

The office is on Railroad Street, about 0.2 miles from Thompson Intermediate School and the Alabaster Police Department, roughly 0.3 miles from Thompson Elementary School and Larry Simmons Stadium, and close to The Old Jail.

The practice accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield, AllKids, Medicaid, Viva, Tricare, and private pay, and children may begin therapy sessions within one to two weeks following an evaluation. Families seeking speech therapy for their child can contact the clinic to begin the intake process.