The owner of our practice, with over 20 years experience in a variety of settings, Sharon specializes in developmental speech and language and feeding/swallowing needs. She specializes in working with children and adolescents with complex medical needs and Autism.
Jackie is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and feeding therapist licensed in North Carolina. Jackie has a diverse background serving pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations across various settings, including outpatient rehabilitation, home health, schools, and teletherapy. Her special interests are articulation/phonology, early language, social skills, feeding/swallowing, AAC, stuttering, and cognitive/executive functions.
Kelly has provided administrative and operational support in mental and behavioral health settings for more than 10 years. She has worked extensively with children and adults with developmental disabilities, implementing educational and behavioral plans and providing personalized care. Her background also includes nonprofit management experience. She loves helping others and looks forward to serving you and your family.
We are currently looking for a new speech language pathologist to begin in the winter of 2026. Are you an SLP looking to serve the pediatric population of Western NC? Do you love kids, building relationships with families, and helping others communicate and connect? If so, please contact us!
Overall, 2.3% to 24.6% of school-aged children were estimated to have speech delay or speech sound disorders (Black, Vahratian, & Hoffman, 2015; Law, Boyle, Harris, Harkness, & Nye, 2000; Shriberg, Tomblin, & McSweeny, 1999; Wren, Miller, Peters, Emond, & Roulstone, 2016).
These include sound errors related to motor and phonological processes. We work to establish, generalize, and maintain correct sound production by meeting the child where they are, using techniques and activities that are fun and engaging, working with families to educate and empower, and collaborating with schools or other professionals as needed to see the most progress.
The prevalence of specific language impairment for kindergarten children has been widely cited as 7.4% overall in the United States (Tomblin et al., 1997).
Our goal for treatment is to stimulate overall language growth by working directly with our clients and their families to focus on the greatest area of need, enhance current skills, target developmentally appropriate needs, and enhance overall learning.
Using different definitions of social communication, the preliminary estimates of delays in this realm for eighth graders ranged from 7% to 11% (Ellis Weismer, Tomblin, et al., 2021)
This area includes pragmatics, social interaction, social cognition, and language processing. We aim to capitalize on strengths and embrace differences in our clients in order to meet them where they are and see improvement overall with understanding and use of social communication. We offer individual session as well as parent/caregiver consultative training sessions to help the entire team in the treatment process.
According to a 2020 study published by The Medical College of Wisconsin in partnership with Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions, 1 in 37 children under the age of 5 may be diagnosed with a pediatric feeding disorder. Speech language pathologists are trained to help infants and children who struggle with eating and drinking. We can work with a diverse range of patients with a variety of diagnoses to evaluate and treat feeding and swallowing issues to allow children to meet their nutritional and hydration needs as they grow.
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6 Yorkshire Street, Suite D, Asheville NC 28803
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Phone: (828) 417-7085 | Fax: (828) 417-7059
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