Our Staff

 Jenn is a 2007 graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania where she received her Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology. After a series of jobs in clinical settings, hospitals, schools, and early intervention, she determined that working in pediatrics was what she truly enjoyed. Jenn has a total of 16 years experience working as a Speech-Language Patholoigst. She has roughly 15 years of pediatric experience, with 11 years being in early intervention with continuing education in current developmental practices. She has experience in developing speech and language skills, assisting with oral motor and feeding skills, addressing articulation concerns, providing advice on parenting and behavioral issues as they relate to speech and language delays, and supporting family relationships in the home and community. She has worked with children with varying diagnoses and disorders. Jenn also has experience working with premature infants and medically fragile pediatric clients. She is experienced in developing and implementing low tech assistive technology devices and programming high tech assistive technology devices and educating children and families for their use. Jenn knows basic sign language.  She has also worked with a number of bilingual children and is able to understand and speak minimal Spanish. She is currently also working as a research diagnostic team clinician with the Early Intervention Reasearch Group at Northwestern Univeristy, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to conduct autism evaluations via telehealth with families enrolled in Early Intervention across Illinois.