Specialties
Family Chatterbox provides pediatric speech therapy in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
There are many areas, diagnoses, and disorders that may benefit from the services of a speech-language pathologist. Family Chatterbox offers services not limited to but including the following areas:
o Articulation - How individual speech sounds are produced
o Expressive Language - The ability to express needs, wants, thoughts, or emotions, through words, pictures, signs, etc.
o Receptive Language - The ability to understand language
o Feeding - Both sensory and oral motor components of eating, picky eating, difficulty chewing, etc.
o Social Skills - The ability to interact, take the perspective of others, and understand unwritten social rules
o Fluency - Often referred to as stuttering or having difficulty producing fluent speech
o Auditory Processing - How the brain receives and interprets information that is heard
o Apraxia - Difficulty planning the motor movements of speech and transmitting the signal from the brain to the mouth
o Cognitive Impairments - Deficits in the ability to reason, concentrate, recall information, problem solve, and process ideas
o Voice Disorders: abuse and misuse of the vocal folds that results in trauma such as nodules.
History
Established in 2017.
Family Chatterbox was established after seeing a need for children to receive speech therapy in their homes. Family Chatterbox is on a mission to partner with parents to teach kids how to communicate effectively in their everyday lives. This process begins in the home and with the family, where the child spends the majority of their time each day.
Meet the Business Owner: Kasey W.
Kasey is a licensed and insured Speech Language Pathologist who is nationally certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association with her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC). Kasey graduated with her teaching license from Bethel University and her masters in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Minnesota.
Kasey has a passion for kids and involving the whole family in therapy. She believes in finding joy and purpose in each therapy task and goal to make real life changes in her children's lives.
