I'm an Illinois-licensed and certified Speech-Language Pathologist, the owner and founder of The Literacy Loop, and a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

The Literacy Loop is a mobile practice serving families throughout the western suburbs of Chicago. I provide all services personally, including evaluations and therapy. Every recommendation is individualized and based on each child's specific profile.

My specialty is the diagnostic work most families have never had done: looking at speech, language, and literacy together to find where the system is breaking down, whether that shows up as a speech sound error, a reading struggle, or both. Executive functioning is part of that picture too, shaping how a child plans, organizes, and applies what they know. I work hard to make sure both the child and the family understand what I'm seeing and why it matters.

I'm Rebecca. 
A speech-language pathologist
 who is also a literacy specialist.

I've spent a decade working in the systems most struggling communicators move through: public schools, clinics, healthcare settings. I watched the same thing happen everywhere. A child's difficulties would get divided into pieces, speech sounds to one provider, language to another, decoding to a program, phonological awareness to a third, and each piece handed to someone different. Everyone worked hard. No one was positioned to connect it.

But speech, language, and literacy don't work in pieces. They're one system in the brain, and they develop together, sounds becoming words, words becoming sentences, spoken language becoming print. A child learning to read is literally building neural pathways that don't exist yet, wired on top of everything speech and language came first to build. That's why the struggles so rarely come one at a time. The child with speech sound errors becomes the child who struggles to spell. The child with a language disorder becomes the child who can't pull meaning off the page. And a child can pass every standard speech and language assessment and still be drowning in print, because no one ever tested the bridge between them.

The Literacy Loop exists to be that bridge. One clinician, trained across the whole system, treating speech, language, and literacy as what they've always been: connected.

As a speech-language pathologist, I place a strong emphasis on literacy intervention, recognizing the critical connection between oral language and reading and writing development. I'm certified in Orton-Gillingham instruction through the Institute for Multisensory Education (IMSE) and integrate structured, multisensory literacy approaches directly into speech and language intervention. I'm trained in the Lindamood-Bell program Visualizing and Verbalizing®, which supports language comprehension and expressive language, and in PROMPT Level 1, which supports motor speech development. I'm currently completing certification as a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Interventionist through IDA/CERI.