{"url":"/glendale/nest-speech-and-language-therapy","provider":{"id":"nest-speech-and-language-therapy","name":"Nest Speech and Language Therapy","kind":"organization","about":"Nest Speech and Language Therapy is a pediatric speech-language practice in Glendale founded by Vana Ashdjian, M.A., CCC-SLP. Its team of speech-language pathologists and assistants provides evaluations, speech and language therapy, a social skills group, feeding therapy and myofunctional therapy, and it refers to Monarch Center for Developmental Services for ABA and OT. It is a clinical training site for graduate students from USC, Cal State LA, West Coast University and Emerson College, and is listed as a service provider by North Los Angeles County Regional Center.","website":"https://www.nestspeech.com/","phone":"(818) 649-1053","email":"info@nestspeech.com","instagram":null,"founded":null,"credentials":["Licensed speech-language pathologists (CCC-SLP)","Listed on North Los Angeles County Regional Center provider list","Clinical training site for university speech-language programs"],"languages":[],"image":null},"location":{"id":"main","name":null,"street":"425 W Broadway","unit":"Suite 450","city":"glendale","zip":"91204","neighborhood":null,"coords":[-118.262105,34.146882],"precision":"exact"},"serviceArea":[],"programs":[{"id":"speech","type":"health","name":"Speech and language therapy and evaluation","summary":"Speech and language evaluations and therapy for young children, including toddlers from 18 months, at a Glendale clinic or at home, with feeding therapy also offered.","description":"Pediatric speech-language practice in Glendale offering comprehensive evaluations that combine formal and informal testing of pragmatic, expressive and receptive language, voice, fluency, articulation and phonological processes. Therapy is personalized and covers articulation, phonology, language, pragmatics, voice and fluency, with early intervention support for children as young as 18 months. Sessions are held at the Glendale clinic, and the practice also offers home-based therapy, feeding therapy and myofunctional therapy. It works alongside multidisciplinary providers. Services are funded through North Los Angeles County Regional Center (Early Start therapeutic services), through insurance and other funding sources, or by private pay; where Nest is not in-network, it provides superbills for reimbursement.","categories":["speech-therapy","early-intervention","feeding-therapy","developmental-evaluation"],"ages":{"min":1,"max":21},"format":"in-person","health":{"specialties":["Speech and language evaluation","Speech and language therapy","Early intervention","Feeding therapy","Myofunctional therapy"],"practitioners":["Vana Ashdjian, M.A., CCC-SLP","Emilie Khatchetourian, M.S., CCC-SLP","Lita Manookian, M.S., CCC-SLP","Emma Bunny, M.S., CCC-SLP","Marine Dzhugaryan, M.S., CCC-SLP"]},"traits":{"specialNeeds":"focused","conditions":["speech-language","feeding"],"delivery":["clinic","in-home"],"insurance":["regional-center","superbill"],"feel":"A pediatric speech therapy clinic in Glendale with a team of speech-language pathologists that also trains graduate students.","topics":["vendored-nlacrc","early-start","early-intervention","myofunctional-therapy","articulation","stuttering","dysphagia","pragmatic-language","aac","glendale"],"goals":["confidence"]}},{"id":"social-skills","type":"health","name":"Social skills group","summary":"A play-based social skills group led by licensed speech-language pathologists at the Glendale clinic.","description":"Social skills group led by licensed speech-language pathologists that helps children build social relationships by teaching initiation, relationship skills, self-regulation, attention and turn-taking. Each class begins with open free play and conversation, moves to a structured lesson, and ends with role-playing to reinforce the skill. The approach is play-based, and each child has individual social skills goals used to track progress. The group is run by the Nest speech therapy practice at its clinic at 425 W Broadway in Glendale.","categories":["social-skills"],"ages":{"min":0,"max":21},"format":"in-person","health":{"specialties":["Social skills group","Pragmatic language"],"practitioners":["Vana Ashdjian, M.A., CCC-SLP","Emilie Khatchetourian, M.S., CCC-SLP"]},"traits":{"specialNeeds":"focused","methods":["play-based"],"goals":["social","wellbeing"],"structure":"structured","topics":["slp-led","glendale"]}}],"source":{"url":"https://www.nestspeech.com/","name":"North Los Angeles County Regional Center service provider list, October 2026","fetched":"2026-10-12"},"updated":"2026-10-12","checked":null,"closed":null,"sample":false}