Heidi is a certified speech language pathologist who graduated with her master’s degree in speech language pathology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has worked with infants and young children for more than a decade. Heidi has specialized in working with children with feeding challenges and has experience working with premature infants, early feeding experiences (bottle feeding, breast feeding, transitioning to solids), medically complex diagnoses (including medical trauma), feeding tubes (and weaning from them!), food allergies, visual impairment, and other feeding challenges. She pulls from a variety of methodologies has been trained in oral-placement strategies by Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson and is a trained SOS feeding specialist endorsed by Dr. Kay Toomey. She also has a wide range of experience working with a variety of communication challenges including visual impairment, childhood apraxia of speech, deaf and hard of hearing, articulation challenges, expressive and/or receptive delays, genetic disorders and syndromes, autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, and cognitive or developmental delay. In addition, she has been trained in infant mental health including trauma-informed care. Heidi has a clear love for children and their families, and believes that young children learn best when engaged in playful and meaningful interactions and routines. Her approach to therapy is a whole-child approach and she strives to integrate goals in other areas such as occupational (including sensory), physical, and behavioral therapies, into her sessions. Heidi also has a small private practice where she sees young children over the age of three. As a life-long learner, Heidi is currently pursuing her Doctor of Education in Leadership for Educational Equity (EdD), Early Childhood Education at the University of Colorado Denver.