Welcome to Sprouting Speech Therapy

Providing speech, language, and feeding therapy for children of all ages in the WNC area

In my practice, I honor and respect different ways of thinking and communicating. I am committed to helping your child effectively communicate their ideas, needs, wants, feelings, and questions. I strive to make my therapy sessions playful and unique for each child. I offer services in-clinic, online, at the park, or at your child’s daycare.

My Mission and Approach

Meet Annie

Hi there! I’m Annie Bartholomew, M.S., CCC-SLP. I’m a pediatric speech-language pathologist.

I am passionate about supporting all individuals communicate authentically. I enjoy getting to know each child and learning their strengths and difficulties to best help them share their own voice with the world. I value building a partnership with family members and providing them with resources to support their child at home. It gives me great joy watching children grow, being their advocate, receiving hugs and high fives, educating parents, and providing a supporting role to help everyone achieve their goals.

I obtained my Bachelor’s in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Western Carolina University and my Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from New York University. I have a certificate in Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) and extended training with Tobii Dynavox devices.

  • Testimonials

    “I grew up with a stutter which was so frustrating and disheartening, but never got the help I needed. When I noticed my kids starting to stutter, I immediately called the doctor to get them to refer them to speech therapy. I was skeptical and worried it wouldn’t work.

    The first appointment, Mrs. Annie was so warm and welcoming. My son was instantly hooked. Over the following months, his speech improved tenfold, which gave me so much hope when my daughter started to stutter. Mrs. Annie is the best of the best and could not be more thankful for her.”

    ~Parent

  • "Ms. Annie worked an absolute miracle with our grandson in a very short time frame! We could understand about 90% of what he said, but people who weren't around him much had a very hard time understanding him. He would get very frustrated when someone would tell him they didn't know what he was saying. Soon after starting with Ms. Annie, he began enunciating sounds perfectly and his words and sentences suddenly became very clear and distinct. He was overjoyed that he could finally be understood! He loved Ms. Annie and looked forward to his weekly sessions with her and was quite sad when he graduated from her program. She is the very best, hands down, and we are extremely grateful for what she did for our grandson!"

    ~Grandmother