The Crossroads team wants your child to look forward to their speech therapy session. It shouldn’t be a struggle or a chore, even for the big kids! We keep in mind what each children enjoys and try to incorporate that into their sessions. Have a sports fan? We’ll use basketball and hockey games for the kids who really like sports and who are competitive. Have a creative dreamer? We’ll work on sounds by writing stories about unicorns and fairies! We’ll joke around, talk in funny voices, all to make speech fun and make the sessions go by quickly. When working with the little ones, we follow their lead and we meet their individual goals through play. We play with what they are interested in.
Who We Are
Crossroads Speech Therapy provides pediatric speech and language therapy. Each session is individualized and provided by a speech therapist who is experienced, licensed, and who holds their American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) Certificate of Clinical Competence. Crossroads Speech Therapy serves children from their first year of life through adulthood.
Our Core Values
Compassion
Adaptability
Knowledge
Excellence
Integrity
Commitment
Why Choose Us?
We Make It Fun
We Collaborate
The Crossroads team believes in the value of collaborating with other professionals involved with your child. Teachers, neuro psychologists, psychologists, occupational therapists, dentists, etc. can all provide valuable perspectives. Collaborating and working as a team is important so that dimensions to any child do not get missed.
We Empower & Support
We are only with your child for one session a week, but parents and caregivers are there all day, every day. Practicing speech homework at home and using strategies we teach can facilitate faster progress. We create a homework folder and script for parents, including what visual, verbal and tactile cues to say and do to get your child to make specific sounds, pairing speech practice with fun and novel activities that are only for speech time.
About the Founder & Director of Crossroads Speech Therapy
Katie, Founder and Director of Crossroads Speech Therapy, is passionate about providing the highest quality speech therapy to each child the practice sees. She specializes in childhood apraxia of speech, articulation and phonological disorders, and expressive and receptive language disorders. She is energetic,fun, and kids love working with her! Children enjoy sessions with her and meet their goals quickly when working with her. She is also a mother of three youngchildren.
Katie has been licensed and practicing since 2008 and has extensive experience treating children and adults with speech and language delays and disorders. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Speech and hearing Science at the University of Illinois in 2006 and her Master’s degree in Communication Science and Disorders from Saint Louis University in 2008. Katie is a certified speech and language pathologist in the state of Illinois, a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, PROMPT Level 1 trained, is on the Apraxia Kids website as a provider for childhood apraxia of speech, holds her PEL license for Illinois, and owns Crossroads Speech Therapy in Chicago.
Katie loves being a part of the community and is always there to help and support clients and their families.
Katie Dimond was recently featured in Voyage Chicago Magazine.
Katie also teaches a Speech Development class for toddlers at Bubbles Academy in Chicago.
Meet the Team
Abby is an enthusiastic speech-language pathologist who is dedicated to helping children of all ages improve their communication skills. She has evaluated and treated children in a variety of settings…
Quinn is a licensed speech-language pathologist. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Iowa and her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Saint…
Jaime has well-rounded pediatric experiences with children of all ages including a wide range of disabilities, backgrounds, and cultures. She has provided treatment for speech and language in areas such…
Alex graduated from the University of Illinois and is excited to be working with the pediatric population in Chicago. Alex speaks fluent Russian and she has always been particularly interested…
Stacey has been practicing as a speech-language pathologist for eleven years in home, school, community, clinical, and teletherapy settings. While experienced in treating a variety of delays and disorders, she…
Michelle is a bilingual speech-language pathologist with extensive experience working with students that present with deficits in articulation, receptive/expressive language, social skills, and fluency.
Caitlin is a speech-language pathologist from the Chicago suburbs and has extensive knowledge working with children with expressive and receptive language disorders, social communication language disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, selective…
Nainee loves working with preschool and elementary-aged children with a variety of speech and language needs and/or a variety of disabilities She has extensive experience with children who have needs…
Kelly has experience working with children in early intervention, multidisciplinary clinics, home health settings, and public schools. Her professional experience and interests include early language and literacy skills, articulation, phonology,…
Mary Kate is a licensed speech-language pathologist who has worked with children ranging from preschool to high school age. Mary Kate is experienced in providing services to children with expressive…
Shana earned a bachelor’s of social work from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s of science from Northwestern University. Shana has experience working with persistent articulation disorders, Childhood Apraxia…
Elle is a licensed speech-language pathologist who has evaluated and treated children across a range of settings, including preschool through junior high school, private practice, and hospitals. Elle has extensive…
Meghann Carlile is a speech-language pathologist with 10+ years of experience working with the pediatric population in the school and clinic settings. She has provided services to children with a wide…