To help them interact with that world is something she loves and does not take for granted. There is no greater gift than being invited into a home and getting a glimpse into the world of a child. She comes to Family Chatterbox excited to have the opportunity to work with families in their homes. She is a certified lactation consultant (CLC) as well as a certified provider of VitalStim Therapy. She developed a love for kids with all different types of feeding difficulties including but not limited to aspiration, oral motor difficulties, sensory feeding, behavioral feeding and plain old picky eating. For her entire career at Children’s, she worked in the Children’s Minnesota Feeding Clinic where she worked closely with Occupational Therapy, nutrition, nurse practitioners, child psychologists, physicians and most importantly families.
She has extensive experience with feeding and swallowing disorders and has worked with infants as young as neonates with feeding difficulties. Paul where she worked with infants, children and young adults with a wide variety of speech, language and feeding difficulties. She comes to Family Chatterbox following a 23 year career at Children’s Minnesota St.
Tricia is a Speech-Language Pathologist who graduated with both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota Duluth in the mid 1990’s. While Amber has a passion for feeding, she enjoys all aspects of speech and language therapy with children and helping them to find their voice, in whatever mode that may be (speech, pictures, signs, or AAC devices)! Following graduation, she began her career at a clinic and was part of a feeding evaluation team that included an Occupational Therapist as well. While in these settings, she found her passion for feeding therapy and has been attending different conferences since to learn more about pediatric feeding (both sensory and oral motor difficulties). During her graduate program, she had the opportunity to work in a clinic that specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorder, a clinic that focuses on social interactions of children with peers in a group setting, outpatient work at a hospital with children, and an intense aphasia group. While completing her undergraduate degree, Amber learned American Sign Language through her classes and has continued to enjoy teaching sign language to her clients to supplement their verbal language and boost their confidence and communication abilities. Amber is a Speech and Language Therapist who attended the University of Minnesota for both her undergraduate and graduate programs for Speech and Language Pathology.
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