About Shannon

After completing my formal education, I spent ten years working as a speech and language therapist in schools and in private practice. Although the work was effective and rewarding on many levels, I knew I could do so much more with and for my students.

What I really wanted was the opportunity to engage with the parents of my students. Parents are the key to integrating the tools learned in therapy sessions into everyday life—one of the benchmarks of success in therapy. But in both my private and school-based practices, where I worked one-on-one with the kids, the skills my students used with ease in my office were slow to transfer to other environments. This became a frustrating limitation for them and for me.

As is often the case, this frustration turned out to be a blessing. It drove me to explore a new approach to therapy, working with kids and parents in their natural environments, and ultimately to found Chatterbox Learning.

As a parent, I believe that we are our kids' first and best teachers. The time they spend with us shapes the self they show to the world. As a therapist, my hope is to give parents the confidence to be with their children in this way and make healthy communication and family learning life-long practices.

When families learn together, they grow together, and everyone has more fun. That, in a nutshell, is what Chatterbox Learning is all about.

Happy Learning!
Shannon

Credentials

• BA, Speech and Hearing Science – Washington State University
• MS, Communicative Disorders with an emphasis in pediatric neurology – San Francisco State University
• Certificate of Clinical Competence – American Speech and Hearing Association
• Washington State Speech Language Pathologist License
• Linguistic Remedies and Orton-Gillingham training
• PROMPT Level One Training
• Train-the-Trainer Levels 1 and 2 - Peak Potentials