Pediatric Speech Therapy

Optimizing your child’s communication and language skills

Pediatric speech therapy is one of the comprehensive therapy programs offered at DMG Children’s Rehabilitative Services (DMG CRS). Our skilled team of pediatric speech and language therapists (SLP) will evaluate your child’s verbal and non-verbal communication skills and create a plan to develop those skills to the maximum of your child’s abilities based on age and medical conditions. Your child’s treatment plan will be designed to help improve linguistics and oral speech skills, as well as identify alternative methods of communication if speech is not feasible.

In addition, DMG CRS pediatric speech therapy experts help children with disorders related to:

Articulation
Cognition
Feeding
Oral motor
Social communication
Stuttering

DMG CRS SLPs are recognized leaders in helping children with complex conditions including:

Cerebral palsy
Cleft lip and palate
Hearing loss
Other speech and language disorders

Your child’s SLP will work closely with other DMG CRS pediatric medical specialists to develop a customized treatment plan to manage your child’s condition and optimize quality of life for your child and family. DMG CRS SLPs often partner with the following medical specialties:

Meet Our pediatric Speech Therapy Pathologists

Ramona Cano, SLP

Ramona Cano, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Auditory-verbal Therapy
Feeding
Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Communication Disorders, Arizona State University, Tempe

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Kelli Frisch, SLP

Kelli Frisch, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Feeding
Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Communication Disorders, Arizona State University, Tempe

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Deborah Leach, SLP

Deborah Leach, SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Speech Language Pathology, California State University, Los Angeles

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Isabel Rodriguez, SLP

Isabel Rodriguez, SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, American Speech-Language Pathology, Howard University, Washington DC

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Lauren Zimmerman, CCC-SLP

Lauren Shoemaker, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Speech-Language Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Debra Spelman

Debra Spelman, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University, New York City

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Tiffany Surman, SLP

Tiffany Surman, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Speech-Language Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Connie Zeller, SLP

Connie Zeller, CCC-SLP, ASDCS

Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist
Speech-Language Pathologist

Medical Specialty: Speech and Language Therapy

Education: Master of Science, Speech-Language Pathology, Minot State University, ND

Certification: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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