Specialties
Midwest Pediatric Therapy is a therapist-owned company that specializes in pediatric speech and occupational therapy. Based out of our clinic in Bloomingdale, IL, our therapists work one-on-one with clients ages birth to 18. Therapists identify children’s strengths and weaknesses and design individualized treatment plans specific to your child’s needs. We establish therapy goals and objectives that drive our activity planning for each session.
Using a variety of play-based, structured, and semi-structured activities, we capitalize on the child’s interests and strengths while teaching skills your child needs to increase functional communication and participation in their daily lives. We provide parents with an update each session that communicates the session’s activities, progress towards goals, and home practice suggestions.
Parent communication and involvement is a cornerstone to our collaborative model that helps to increase carry-over of skills learned within the 1:1 setting as well and ensures treatment planning is individualized and functional treatment for each client.
History
Established in 2016.
Lacey Peters, M.A,, CCC-SLP was school-based SLP who saw a need for private & home-based speech therapy in the West/NW suburbs. As parents asked for recommendations, Lacey found that private therapy options in the area were limited and required a significant drive for parents and/or placement on long waiting lists.
In February 2016, Lacey founded Teaching Tots To Talk to service the needs of young children in DuPage & western Cook counties. After almost a year, Teaching Tots To Talk expanded & opened a small speech & language clinic in Roselle, IL where we became known as Midwest Speech Therapy, PC.
In Fall 2019, Occupational Therapy services were added, and later Feeding Therapy. Our expanding therapy programs required MWST to move to a larger space in Bloomingdale, IL, and that is where we remain located today! Our practice has continued to grow and in March 2025 we adopted the assumed name Midwest Pediatric Therapy to be more inclusive of all the therapeutic services we offer.
Meet the Business Owner: Lacey P.
Lacey Peters, M.A., CCC-SLP has been a licenced Speech-Language Pathologist since 2010. Lacey obtained a Master's in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Illinois. In addition, Lacey obtained a graduate certificate from Illinois State University after completing extensive training as Listening and Spoken Language Professional for children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Lacey has experience working with children with a variety of speech and language delays and disorders including those related to or cause by: fluency (stuttering) disorders, articulation and phonological delays, expressive and receptive language disorders, hearing loss, and craniofacial anomalies (cleft palate).
Lacey is a certified member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
She is also credentialed through the State of Illinois Early Intervention Program to provide services to children birth - 3 years of age.
