Align Orofacial Myology and Speech

Meeting "orofacial myology" in 2008 turned my clinical world upside down! No speech error, voice difference, or swallowing issue has been viewed the same since! My clients began to reap more efficient therapy results and gain improved nasal breathing, sleeping, and overall health benefits! I knew it was imperative to train the next generation of SLPs! I taught a graduate course for 10 years, collaborated on several master's theses that researched tongue thrust and tongue tie topics, published in the International Journal of Orofacial Myology and Myofunctional Therapy, presented at (24) state, national, and international conferences, and was Board Certified as an Orofacial Myologist in 2012. I traded my university career for direct clinical work, to get deeper into the trenches of personally serving clients. I love learning about each client's story and the challenge of helping families “put all the pieces together” to figure out how to address the root causes of clients’ concerns.