About Us

Allison has been a certified, licensed and practicing Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri since 2007. She reactivated her licensure in Illinois in 2024. She attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she earned her Master’s in Communication Disorders and Sciences. She also obtained a bachelor’s degree with a minor in psychology. Prior to that, she attended a community college where she earned two associate’s degrees: one in science in business and the other in arts. She entered the field of speech pathology because she heard first hand from her own family experiences how frustrating it can be when a person cannot communicate and the effect it has on quality of life and relationships with others. 

After college, she completed her clinical fellowship experience with a hospital system in Illinois, where she gained experience in the intensive care unit, acute, inpatient rehabilitation, and outpatient therapy settings. She also worked in skilled nursing facilities and later advanced her career in a leadership role in an adult day care. That experience unlocked a career advancement opportunity in leadership in a larger skilled nursing facility in Illinois. At the same time, Allison also taught as an adjunct teacher for one semester for the Communication Disorders and Sciences department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She then moved to Missouri where she managed several therapists including physical, occupational, and speech therapists in a skilled nursing home setting and many assisted living and independent living settings. After completing this leadership opportunity, Allison decided to take a step back into a full time Speech Pathologist Cape Girardeau Missouri role in a skilled nursing facility closer to home that required less travel. It wasn’t long before leadership found her again and she managed over 40 therapists including physical, occupational, and speech therapists at a skilled nursing facility, which also provided outpatient therapy and workman’s comp therapy. Along the way, she earned certifications in Vital Stimulation therapy, Advanced Vital Stimulation, Myofascial Release therapy, Tracheo-esophageal Puncture and Voice Restoration and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES). During her career, Allison has volunteered her expertise and knowledge to train multiple students upcoming in the field and served as a Clinical Fellowship supervisor for many clinical fellows.

Then for one year, Allison perceived that the purpose from the Lord awaited another opportunity for career advancement.  After a year of prayer and waiting, Allison took a position as a Program Director III of an inpatient rehabilitation unit at a local hospital. During the four years of experience in this setting, Allison earned a certification in Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBS-ImP). Then, she felt the Lord prompting her to another stirring that another major career change would occur. Allison stepped back into being a Speech Pathologist in which she would evaluate and treat patients in a skilled nursing setting and become familiar with the home health setting. It was in this experience that she was introduced to telehealth and also provided treatment within a patient’s home environment alongside their family members and in familiar environments. 

In total, while in the healthcare settings, Allison has worked as a Speech Pathologist in St Louis Missouri with adults who have experienced strokes, head and neck cancer, status post tracheostomy tube placements, swallowing disorders and dysphagia, neurocognitive disorders, executive function and cognitive difficulties, challenges with memory, neuro-based stuttering disorders, voice difficulties or dysphonia, speech disturbances, such as dysarthria, and oral motor disorders.

The Lord then led her to take on a different challenge: working with children! Didn’t see that coming!