I am a pediatric speech-language pathologist with over 15 years of experience working in private practice and educational environments. Throughout my career, I have become passionate about serving children who are primarily non-speaking or who demonstrate limited verbal communication. It is my professional mission to show others that every child can learn, grow, and communicate! I provide the following services: 1. AAC: AAC therapy helps children communicate to meet daily needs, socialize with family and peers, and demonstrate academic knowledge. Using a motor planning based approach to AAC, where we consider and support your child's sensory and motor system, we can help them: ​ Communicate needs, wants, thoughts, opinions, feelings, and questions Combine words to form sentences Advocate for themselves Actively participate in conversations and social interactions Repair communication breakdowns when needed 2. Speech therapy: Speech therapy targets the specific sounds, muscle movements, and speech patterns that your child is having difficulty with. Using a variety of therapeutic cues, we can help your child: ​ Add new speech sounds to their inventory Produce age-appropriate sounds correctly Coordinate the movement between sounds Speak with confidence ​ Speech therapy is an effective treatment approach for articulation disorders, phonological disorders, and motor speech disorders such as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and dysarthria. 3. Language therapy: Language therapy helps children develop both receptive and expressive language skills in a variety of ways (through sign, AAC, or oral speech). Using evidence-based resources such as the expanding expressions tool, the story grammar marker, and the visualizing and verbalizing program, we can help your child: ​ Produce new words and know the meaning of words Understand and follow directions Ask and answer questions correctly Comprehend reading passages Use complete sentences with accurate grammar Participate in conversations and social interactions 4. Feeding therapy: Feeding therapy can help ease the stress of children and caregivers at mealtimes. While there may be many reasons for pediatric feeding difficulties, such as sensory processing issues or delayed motor skills development, we can help your child: Use their oral muscles to move food in their mouth Coordinate their lips, cheeks, jaw, and tongue for feeding Chew and swallow safely Eat a greater variety of foods

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I currently provide therapy services to children and adults in home and would like to expand into telepractice when possible. I have experience evaluating and treating children and adults with various speech/language and swallowing disorders. I worked with the birth to three population in IL for approximately 5 years as an independent contractor for the state. During that time I also contracted with a children's hospital to provide evaluation services for their autism spectrum disorders clinic for approximately one year. My full time job is within the school setting, therefore my hours of availability would be late afternoon, early evening.