Where nothing is a problem;
just a challenge.
Services Include:
- Cognitive, swallowing, & communication evaluations and consultations with those 0-100 years old
- School IEP, nursing home, home & family, and hospital advocacy consultations
- Contact: talkndr(at)yahoo.com or 815.541.1857 with any questions
| First Off, Note: | What’s on each of the website’s pages? |
|---|---|
| Home | Further down the page is where you can find out how to make an appointment, addresses, phone number, scope of practice, licensure/certifications, and a little about me. So keep scrolling downward. |
| Speech Issues | For insights on verbal/oral apraxia, dysarthria, Parkenson’s Disease speech characteristics, misarticulations, voice disorders, accent reduction, speech intelligibility issues. |
| Cognitive | Delays or injury to cognitive abilities include neurological changes, attention and memory, sensory integration, language-learning disabilities. |
| Swallowing | Eating challenges includes dealing with a picky eater, understanding liquid and solid food consistencies, and strategies to help with the dining experience when others feed a person. |
| Strategies | If you have had an evaluation with me, here is where you will find the information I told you to not worry about because it would be somewhere on my website. |
| Healthcare Directives | Consider creating a healthcare directive and/or Power Of Attorney. The information on this page will share how I can assist in this endeavor. |
Yes, everyone thinks of us as the “s and r, waskily wabbit” remediation folks, but wait, we are far much more than just a resource for those challenges. Most of my consultations end up with me sharing about verbal and/or oral apraxia, slurred speech, as well as cognitive and swallowing topics.
However, that is not to say that all speech therapists choose to have a wider scope of practice. Some have become ‘laser-focused’ on one or a few areas defined in our practice, and that is just fine….just doesn’t happen to me….my focus is pretty wide.
I’ve been a speech pathologist for several decades and before that a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, and even before that, a volunteer EMT in our tiny town. Helping people with their challenges and achieving their goals has always been a common theme in all of my professions. My focus is on helping clients achieve functional goals and abilities through being an advocate for compensatory strategies in one’s home, workplace, and school IEPS. I love care plan meetings and IEP meetings and making sure you and your family understand their rights and involvement in the goal making process.
- Anyone 0-100 years old with basically anything related to the brain that is within the scope of practice for a speech pathologist.
- Early Intervention Consultation as a Developmental Therapist and Speech Therapist
- Neurological challenges/decline (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, head injury, dysarthria).
- Swallowing Disorders
- Cognitive Rehab/Executive Function
- Language-Learning Disabilities
- Voice and Accent Reduction
- Developmental Delay/disorders (Autism, various syndromes, prematurity)
- Nursing Home advocacy with care plans
- School IEP advocacy
- Vocational Rehabilitation job seeking and job retention consultation
- Email: talkndr(at)yahoo.com
- Phone: 815-541-1857 (text or voice message)
- I offer to come to your home instead of you coming to my office when appropriate.
- We also can do teletherapy via ZOOM, SKYPE or FaceTime if you live in one of the states that I have licensure: IL, IA, FL, CA, WI (and others as necessary)
- Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida, California
- Courses taken (certainly not an exhaustive list): VitalStim swallowing therapy, DPNS swallowing therapy, Masgutova Reflexive Therapy, Interactive Metronome, Lindamood Bell Learning Series, Handwriting Without Tears, Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT), Compton Accent Reduction.
- ASHA (American Speech and Hearing Association) Certification.
‘Tis Challenging Speech
1706 Superior Ave
Savanna, IL 61074
‘Tis Challenging Speech
1531 Cavendish Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401