Speech - Language Pathologists

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

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 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

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 early identification and developmental services for families of infants and toddlers who may have a developmental delay.
Specialties include, developmental delay, early intervention, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language pathology, speech delay.

Baby Watch Early Intervention Program, Utah Department of Health

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

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

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.

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.

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 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

A family focused program that provides developmental and therapeutic services to those with possible developmental delays and/or disabilities, most often in the family's home.

Services include:

• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Hearing Assessment
• Psychological Consultation
• Nursing/Health Assessment
• Parent Training/Education
• Referral

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

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 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 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

Provides speech-language evaluations and intervention.

Diane S. Taylor MS CCC-SLP

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 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 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

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.