About Caitlin:

With nearly 20 years of experience spanning the US, Canada, and China, Caitlin brings a global, multidisciplinary perspective to speech therapy. Her career began in the classroom - teaching music and working in private education - before she earned her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology. This background allows her to uniquely understand the intersection of clinical goals and academic success, bridging the gap between oral language and literacy to help learners thrive.

Caitlin’s clinical approach is rooted in unique training. Mentored by state association presidents Linda Pippert (CA) and Mary Bahr-Schwenke (WI), she has also sought out specialized training from industry pioneers including Scott Yaruss (Stuttering), Cari Ebert (Early Intervention), Nancy Kaufman (Apraxia), and Judy Montgomery (Vocabulary).

She has applied this expertise in settings as massive as the Los Angeles Unified School District and as specialized as the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. A musician at heart with a Certificate in Piano Pedagogy, she combines clinical precision with a trained ear for the rhythm and melody of speech. She provides clinical supervision and is currently finalizing an online curriculum for busy caregivers, set to release this year.

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Areas of Specialty:

• Vocabulary Enrichment

• Stuttering & Fluency

• Childhood Speech & Language Disorders

• Clinical Supervision

• Parent & Caregiver Coaching

• Accent Modification

• Social Language

• Blind & Visually Impaired Support

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• Literacy & Reading Intervention

 

Training:

• M.S. Communication Sciences and Disorders (2009); Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater

• B.A. Music Major; Asian Studies Minor (2005); Carthage College

• Certificate of Piano Pedagogy (2005); Carthage College

• International Studies: World Religions (India) & Chinese Culture (China)

 

Personal:

Originally from Wisconsin, Caitlin has loved calling the Yukon home since 2021. Outside of the clinic, she is a "casual adventurer" exploring the world with her husband and three children (including twins!). Their home is also joyfully multilingual - they have a field retriever from Shanghai, and Caitlin’s family speaks Mandarin with her.

A true creative, Caitlin is a filmmaker and photographer featured in Total Baroque Magazine, Canada Lutheran Magazine, Yukon Summer Music Camp, is a proud member of the Community Handbell Choir, and is a published composer alongside her husband, Ben.

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