As an SLP since 2005 and a mother of children who benefitted from early intervention and speech therapy services, I understand the value of having a compassionate and professional speech-language pathologist who can provide high-quality and individualized services to clients and families.

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The ever-growing need for speech therapy services in our community over the last several years has inspired me to start my own company, Hatcher SLP. I offer a variety of services related to speech-language pathology and specialize in delivering those services virtually, or through telepractice. I have specialized training and published research in this area.

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My educational background includes completing undergraduate and graduate degrees at Western Kentucky University, and later, my Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Additionally, I was trained in 2018 by an American Telemedicine Association-approved program in Maine. In 2021, I earned a Graduate Certificate in Telehealth from the University of Kentucky- the only one of its kind. I believe virtual SLP services should be fully implemented using best practices in a way that makes services comparable, if not better than, in-person services.

My professional and clinical experience includes providing evaluation and treatment services to children and adults with a variety of communication disorders; however, my primary focus has been working with pediatric populations.

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My additional practice and instructive experience includes:

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• providing speech-language pathology services across a variety of settings (home-based early intervention, public schools, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and hospitals);​

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• training and certification in two Hanen Parent Programs® (includes the telepractice certifications, It Takes Two to Talk® and More Than Words®);​

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• delivering evidence-based, parent-implemented early language interventions and empowering families and caregivers to be the primary agents of change in their child’s communication development;

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• conducting research in child language, caregiver-implemented interventions, and telepractice;

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• publishing in peer-reviewed professional journals in early childhood education and speech-language pathology;

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• training speech-language pathology students for over 12 years at a university-based clinic to implement effective and evidence-based treatment strategies with clients who have communication disorders;

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• instructing university courses on communication development, speech and language disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, and telepractice;

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• providing professional trainings, including presentations at state and national conferences, on child language intervention, telepractice, and other speech therapy-related topics; and

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• providing caregiver-implemented language intervention for youth with or at risk for language impairment in a children’s home in Latin America.

 

While I have a passion for helping children and adults communicate effectively and confidently, I want to share that my greatest joy is being a wife and a mother to my three children.

 

Thank you for taking an interest in Hatcher SLP!