Speech - Language Pathologists

Offers educational services and administers K-12 schools in the communities of Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Midvale, Sandy and the town of Alta.

• Special Preschools
• Special Education
• School Districts
• Speech and Language Pathology
• Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides evaluation and speech therapy treatment for children.

Treatments and Conditions:

• Articulation
• Phonology
• Apraxia
• Language acquisition
• Verbal expression
• Social language
• Grammar and sentence structure
• Auditory processing

Nesha Woodard, MA, CCC-SLP

Provides contract speech therapy to charter schools and makes individual home visits in Davis county area. Skilled in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Apraxia, Language Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, and Articulation.

Suzanna Mallory, M Ed, CCC-SLP

• Refugee Resettlement Volunteer Opportunities
• Special Preschools
• School Districts
• Special Education
• Speech and Language Pathology
• Instructional Materials
• Summer School Programs

• Autism Therapy
• Brain Injury Rehabilitation
• Audiological Evaluations
• Speech and Language Pathology
• Literacy Volunteer Opportunities

Karla Jay M.S. C.C.S.-SLP

Information specialists provide callers with fact sheets, resources and referrals to other organizations and agencies. Topics include hearing, balance, smell and taste, voice, speech, and language disorders.

• Audiological Evaluations
• Developmental Assessment
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Disability Related Parenting Programs

Children who are evaluated and not eligible are referred to Help Me Grow to continue Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and care coordination.

Provides a variety of speech and language services using traditional therapy models (private sessions 1-2 times per week and small group therapy). Also offers an intensive summer speech programs using SmartPalate Technology.

Ann Dorais, M.A. CCC-SLP

• Speech Therapy
• Speech and Language Evaluations

Paige Crawley M.S. CCC-SLP

Provides therapy for all speech-language disorders and delays with free initial consultation. Therapy includes parent observation and parent training to support goals. 

Conditions and Treatments:

• Speech sound disorders
• Apraxia of speech
• Tongue thrust
• Stuttering
• Language disorders
• Accent reduction
• Aural rehabilitation

Alissa Holloway M.S. CCC-SLP

Provides on-site or online screenings and evaluations, as well as individual or group therapy.​

Conditions and Treatments:

• ​Speech Sound Disorders (Articulation/Phonology)
• Tongue Thrust
• Fluency/Stuttering
• Language Disorders (Receptive/Expressive)
• Social Skills
• ​Accent Modification: helping clients achieve an American accent-the world language of business.
• Dysphagia (Swallowing)

Mekell Smith, MS CCC-SLP, Owner

• Summer Camps
• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Speech Therapy
• Educational Therapy
• Speech and Language Pathology

A waiting list may be 6 months to 1 year.

• Developmental Assessment
• Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Ft. Duchesne location: Little Blossom Center, 1/4 mile south of Bottle Hollow, 84026 435 722-5654

• Speech Therapy
• Special Preschools
• Speech and Language Evaluations
• School Districts
• Home Based Parenting Education
• Youth Enrichment Programs
• Instructional Materials

Provides low cost evaluations and speech therapy services.

Conditions and Treatments:

• Individual Therapy
• Evaluations
• Articulation
• Late Talking
• Language Delay
• Autism
• Phonology
• Baby Sign
• Apraxia
• Social Skills
• Stuttering
• Cluttering
• Resonance
• Severe Picky Eating

Hali Michaelis, MS, CCC-SLP

Provides therapy services that cover a variety of speech-language disorders. SmartPalate System (Palatomother technology) is used as well as traditional and new research-based innovative therapy techniques.

Kerstine I. Hart, M.S. CCC-SLP

• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy

Emily Hampton, M.S. CCC-SLP
Wendi Rock, MOTR/L
Rachel Shackelford, MOTR/L
Mariann Gonzalez, COTA/L

• Physical Therapy
• Special Preschools
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy

• Speech Therapy
• Speech and Language Evaluations

Maria Gurrister, MS CCC-SLP
Tom Gurrister, MS CCC-SLP, BRFS
Darrell Matthews, MS, CF-SLP
Julie Frost, MA-CF-SLP

Provides evaluation and treatment of adults and children with speech, language, and/or hearing impairment.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Many services are now available through virtual care. No entry allowed for any individual suspected of Covid-19 or having received positive Covid-19 test. Please call or visit website for additional information.

• Audiological Evaluations
• Hearing Aids
• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Speech Therapy

Pamela Mathy, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic Director
Susan Naidu, Ph.D., CCC-A, Audiology Clinic Coordinator and AuD Program Director
The professional clinic also serves as a training program for graduate students in speech-language pathology and audiology.

Clinical services for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). UDAC evaluates children with or at risk for developmental delays throughout Utah; provides developmental assessments and management recommendations for all ages of children. Clinics include Child Development Program (CDP); Heart Center Neurodevelopmental Program (HCNP), Neonatal Follow-up Program (NFP).

Services Include:

• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Neonatal Care
• Developmental Assessment
• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Developmental Pediatrics
• Family Support Services.
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment

Karen Buchi, MD Executive Director
Laurie Lesher, Operations Director
Sarah Winter, MD Medical Director, Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics
Paul Carbone,MD
Kendra Lystad, MD
Quan-Tuyen Nguyen, MD
Sean Cunningham, PhD, Psychologist
Ashley Stuart, Psychologist
Kelly Stout, Psychologist
Katherine Street, Occupational Therapist
Andrianna Comas, Occupational Therapist
Lauren Ayala, Physical Therapist
Katrina Wheeler, Speech Therapist
Jori Harris, Speech Therapist

Provides speech-language evaluations and intervention.

Diane S. Taylor MS CCC-SLP

Provides treatment to both children and adults with speech, language or swallowing disorders.

Treatments and Conditions:

• Apraxia 
• Speech Sound Disorders of Articulation and Phonological Processes 
• Stuttering
• Voice Problems
• Language-Based Learning Disabilities
• Delayed Language Development
• Specific Language Impairment
• Dysphagia (inability to swallow)
• Problems gathering food and getting ready to suck, chew or swallow

Jared L. Bennett, MS, CCC-SLP

Provides neurological and occupational therapy to patients of all ages, including children.

Conditions and Treatments

• Post-stroke
• Brain or spinal cord injuries
• Cerebral palsy
• Autism

Provides customized in-home speech therapy services.

Services Include:

• Comprehensive evaluations
• Therapy
• Parent training
• Consultative services

Conditions and Treatments:

• Apraxia of Speech
• Articulation Disorders/Phonological Processes
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Cleft Palate
• Delays in Early Language Development (Late Talkers)
• Developmental Delays
• Down Syndrome
• Expressive Language Delay
• Feeding Disorders
• Fluency Disorders (Stuttering)
• Receptive Language Delays
• Reading
• Sensory Integration Disorders Related to Speech

Beth Browning, MS CCC-SLP

Provide therapy and professional support for children and their families.  Provides diagnostic testing and treatment for a variety of child-related illnesses, physical disabilities and other activities that affect a child's daily activities.

Conditions and Treatments:

• Speech, language and cognitive delays
• Hearing loss
• Developmental delays
• Physical challenges
• Cerebral palsy
• Down's syndrome
• Autism
• Feeding disorders

Carin B Hadley- SLP

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

• Equestrian Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Special Preschools

Beth Browning, MS CCC-SLP

• Speech Therapy
• Mental Health Evaluation
• Autism Therapy
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Offices in Cottonwood Heights, Layton, Orem, and Salt Lake City
Layton: 2940 N Church Street Suite 303, 84040
Orem: 111 South 1350 West Building B, 84058 offers Home-based ABA therapy
Salt Lake City: 515 South 700 East Suite 2A, 84102
ADOS testing

Provides services to help communication disorders including (but not limited to): aural rehabilitation, stuttering, cluttering, cleft palate, autism, and voice disorders, speech sound disorders such as apraxia and articulation deficits, language impairment and social communication disorders. Hosted by the Department of Communication Disorders.

• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Speech Therapy

Complete a clinic intake form and mail it to address on website. Expect some wait time. Enrollment in the clinic occurs three times per year, at the beginnings of fall and winter semesters and spring term.
Cost for evaluation $70; for session $25. Some insurances reimburse.

New Patient Referrals: 800-314-4283. See [https://www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org/salt-lake-city/appointments-and-admissions Appointments and Admissions]

Provides state of the art pediatric orthopedic care for a wide range of diseases and disorders of the bones, muscles, and joints. Services include inpatient and outpatient, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, custom wheelchairs, prosthetics and orthotics, outpatient clinics, and movement analysis.

If child has upcoming appointment and child or parent are exhibiting cough, fever, chills, shortness of breath, or flu like symptoms, please call to reschedule due to COVID-19.

• Pediatrics
• Hospitals
• Child Passenger Safety Education
• Safe Havens for Abandoned Newborns

Specialty clinics: Neuromuscular Clinic monthly; Clubfoot Clinic twice a week in two locations; Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic quarterly; Hand Clinic monthly; Skeletal Dysplasia Clinic three times a year; Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Clinic two times a year; Infantile scoliosis/EDF casting Clinic; Plastics Clinic monthly; Spine Clinic twice a week; car seat clinic twice a month (no referral required).

Play groups combine physical therapy and recreation therapy; summer and winter camps provide fun customized recreation and physical therapy activities; a SNAP camp for healthy eating and fun ways to move their bodies.

Care Management, Orthopedics 801-536-3777

Provides outpatient speech therapy, occupational, and physical therapy.

• Physical Therapy
• Audiological Evaluations
• Speech Therapy
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Speech and Language Evaluations

Offers comprehensive evaluation services and address each child's individual priorities in many areas including communication, self care, social skills, sensory integration, eating, play skills, etc. Services for treating children with autism are available at all outpatient rehabilitation sites. Services include treatment for childhood obesity.

Delivers a variety of in-home health care services including nurses, home aides, medical social workers, physical, speech and occupational therapy, IV services, oxygen and respiratory services, in-home medical equipment, and 24/7 hospice care.

• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Immunizations
• Home Nursing
• Physical Therapy
• Hospice Care

Provides private speech and language therapy to children and adolescents.  Options for in-office, in-school, and at-home.

Services Include:

• Speech and language screening
• Hearing screening
• Articulation evaluation
• Language evaluation
• Speech and language therapy

Deon Mock, MS CCC-SLP

Provides reading and language therapy for children with speech and language challenges such as dyslexia, apraxia, and autism.

• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Speech Therapy
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Summer Camps

Waiting list may be 6 months to one year for child. Educational workshops ongoing and open. Examples: How to manage tricky behavior, How to help my child use words and sentences to communicate. How to help my picky eater. Building understanding. Choosing the right toys and books to build language. Improving play and social skills.

• Speech and Language Evaluations
• Pediatric Rehabilitation
• Physical Therapy
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Developmental Assessment

Located at the Orem Community Hospital.

Carin B Hadley- SLP

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Offers mental health and behavioral programs for kids and families in-home and office. Has offices in Salt Lake, Layton, Cottonwood Heights, and Orem.

• Autism Therapy
• Mental Health Evaluation
• Speech Therapy
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Provides outpatient speech therapy, occupational, physical, and feeding therapy for individuals 0 to 21 years old.

Services Include:

• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Autism
• Cerebral Palsy/Brain Injury/Stroke
• Various Genetic Disorders
• Down Syndrome
• Injuries of hand or arm
• Delays in Self-Care Skills
• Delays in Visual Perception
• Delays in Fine Motor Coordination
• Delays in Handwriting Skills
• Newborn plagiocephaly (flat head) and hip dysplasia
• Musculoskeletal dysfunction (tight muscles, broken bones, walking problems, joint injuries, scoliosis)
• Developmental delay (delayed walking or crawling, bottom scooting, slow reactions, delayed running or jumping)
• Neurologic diagnosis (cerebral palsy, Muscular dystrophy, spasticity, intrauterine stroke, low tone, vestibular dysfunction,)
• Genetic diseases (William’s, Downs Syndrome, Rhett’s, Cru-du-Chat, Angelman’s, etc.)
• Pediatric Orthopedic (flat feet, sports injuries, growth plate dysfunction, Sever’s, Osgood-Slaughter’s, hip dysplasia, etc.)
• Serial casting for management of spasticity or toe walking
• Voice (vocal nodules, paradoxical vocal fold dysfunction, resonance disorders with cleft palate and cleft palate repair, singers voice, vocal fold dysfunction, quality issues)
• Oral motor disorders (tongue thrust, dysarthria, apraxia)
• Alternative Communication (low tech- PECS; High tech-AAC devices)
• Articulation (sound substitutions, phonological disorders, articulation delay, Childhood Apraxia of Speech)
• Expressive Language Receptive Language (delays, disorders, auditory processing disorder)
• Dysfluency (stuttering, cluttering) Hearing Loss (cochlear implants, BAHA, BTE hearing aids, sign language, Aural Habilitation/rehabilitation)
• Cognition (TBI, Stroke, Executive function, behavior)
• Social Skills

Infants (typically under 12 months)

• Bottle skills: difficulty with latch, difficulty managing milk
• Swallowing: coughing, gagging or “choking” with feeds
• Difficulty coordinating breathing and eating
• Failure to thrive
• Issues of the digestive tract: frequent vomiting, constipation or diarrhea
• Fatigue with feeding: can only eat for a short amount of time or a small amount of milk
• Prolonged feeding time
• Feeding tubes
• Not transitioning to solids (baby food) from milk
• Not transitioning from purees to more textured foods

Toddlers (typically over 12 months)

• Feeding tubes
• Not transitioning to solids (baby food) from milk
• Not transitioning from purees to more textured foods Issues of the digestive tract: frequent vomiting, constipation or diarrhea
• Mealtimes are a struggle
• Aversion or avoidance of all foods in a specific texture or nutrition group
• Food range less than 30 foods
• Many developmental, genetic, or other diagnosis may also affect eating including: autism, down syndrome, brain injury, etc.
• History of medical issues related to eating including: Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), Acid reflux, food allergies/intolerances, cleft palate, etc.

Kids Who Count serves children from birth to age 3 in the Nebo School District boundaries. Kids Who Count is part of the Utah Department of Health Baby Watch Early Intervention Program. Provides testing of children's current health and development for eligibility of early intervention services.

• Hearing Screening
• Autism Therapy
• Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Developmental Assessment
• Disability Related Parenting Programs
• Eye Screening
• Speech Therapy
• Physical Therapy

Provides physical rehabilitation to patients who have had an injury or disease that has interrupted their daily function and work.

Services Include:

• Physical Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Occupational Therapy 
• Aquatic Therapy
• Fitness Program Set Up
• Hand Therapy
• Industrial Medicine & Work Conditioning
• Lymphedema Therapy
• Massage Therapy
• Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy
• Pediatrics
• Swallowing Disorders

Provides audiology services and speech-Language therapy for children and adults with hearing loss.

Services Include:

• Comprehensive evaluation
• Individualized therapy
• Ongoing hearing device monitoring
• Ongoing progress monitoring
• Parent coaching
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Tele-interventions options

Conditions and Treatments:

• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Articulation
• Auditory perception
• Cleft palate
• Language
• Dysarthria
• Laryngectomy
• Fluency
• Traumatic brain injury
• Voice

There may be a minimal waiting period for an appointment. However, special scheduling arrangements are possible under circumstances of urgency.

Services provided by graduate students under supervision of certified faculty.

Provides speech therapy services.

• Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy

Provides speech services to children and adolescents ages 3 to 18. 

Services Include:

• Free consultations
• Comprehensive evaluations for articulation, language, literacy and social communication skills  
• Individualized treatment plans
• 30 or 60 minute sessions
• Parent/Caregiver training

Rebecca Nelson, M.A CCC-SLP