Mission and Values
Speaking Life, LLC exists to provide high quality therapy services tailored to each child's individual needs.
Values:
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Treating all children and families with respect
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Building positive, encouraging relationships
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Using evidence-based therapy approaches
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Making therapy fun and engaging to facilitate learning
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Neurodiversity-affirming therapy
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Treating all forms of communication (verbal, gestural, use of communication devices, etc.) as valuable
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Seeing children's skills flourish
About the Owner
McKenzie Brothers, MS, CCC-SLP
Speaking Life is run by McKenzie Brothers, MS, CCC-SLP, a local board-certified speech-language pathologist with experience serving patients across many different settings, including clinics, schools, homes, and hospitals. She received her Master's degree at Vanderbilt University and has specialized training in Natural Language Acquisition for gestalt language processing (one of two ways of developing language, which is especially common in Autistic children), pediatric hearing loss, and Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She is driven by the belief that communication is central to nearly every aspect of life and that every child's thoughts and ideas deserve a voice.
