I'm Katelyn! I have been a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist since 2015, and am the founder of The Communication Classroom. I began my SLP journey as a school-based SLP with high school and elementary-aged students. I also had the opportunity to be a part of the Assistive Technology Department in one district, where I focused on providing supports for communication, reading, and writing to students. 

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I am passionate about working with Autistic individuals, functional communication, AAC devices, gestalt language processing (scripting), high school language skills, and pragmatic language (through self-advocacy, problem solving, executive functioning, and perspective taking).

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Our goal at the Communication Classroom is to work with clients and their family to provide individualized communication therapy. We never aim to FIX a child, but to develop skills that build confidence in their communication and relationships. We prioritize connection over compliance, honoring communication, teaching self-advocacy, and building communicative and bodily autonomy.

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I am licensed in Illinois and am also a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.