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Anissa Meacham, M.S., CCC-SLP
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ALL ABOUT ANISSA
Home & FamilyI’m originally from West Virginia, but eventually found my way to Radford University in southwestern Virginia where I obtained a graduate degree. While at RU, I met my best friend and now husband, Luke. Luke grew up out west—Texas, Arizona, Arkansas. He’s an avid reader of how-to books, technical computer manuals, and finance books. (People actually read those! Who knew?!) Best of all, he has a deep appreciation of pop-up books and a great sense of humor! (All college textbooks should be in popup form really. Don’t you think?) Despite the ongoing battle for household dominance with my five pound teacup poodle, Mayzie, he stuck around and finally asked me to marry him. I gladly took him up on the offer in 2003, in an intimate, very spontaneous ceremony in a park in Virginia surrounded by our parents. Luke’s a business and finance enthusiast, currently working for the Social Security Administration. In Fall 2006, he'll start law school at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, VA while I finish my doctoral degree and start a private practice in Abingdon, VA.
Click here for a brief but fun Power Point biography with pictures!
Hopes for the Future
Probably most obvious, I plan to continue supporting and teaching children with disabilities through innovative programming and research. I hope to accomplish that primarily through my own dynamic, private practice--Speech Geek. A lesser known dream of mine, I ’d also love to publish a children’s book in the near future. Whatever the future may hold, I do plan to live life with high energy, a lot of enthusiasm, great faith, and much contentment.
Mayzie Trick-or-Treating |
Stuff that Keeps Me Sane
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Food for Thought
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
~ Bob Goddard
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." "A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine." "The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day " “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” |
Luke & Anissa Christmas 2004 |
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
~ Groucho Marx
"Children have more need of models than of critics."
~ Carolyn Coats
"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
~ Phyllis Diller
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
~ Norman Douglas
"Few things can transform us as quickly as the presence of a child."
~ Tobin Hart
"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it."
~ Harold Hulbert
“Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns. Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him. He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man's ears and some spit on the man's tongue. Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, "Ephphatha!-Open up!" And it happened. The man's hearing was clear and his speech plain--just like that. Jesus urged them to keep it quiet, but they talked it up all the more, beside themselves with excitement. He's done it all and done it well. He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless."
~ Mark 7:31-38 (The Message)