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Dedicated to helping children reach their speech and language potential.

Hi I’m Denise

I’ve been a speech-language pathologist for more than 30 years, and I still love what I do! I graduated with my Masters in Speech-Language Pathology from Idaho State University. Since that time, I’ve worked in public schools, child development centers, home-based birth to three, and private practice.

I’m passionate about maintaining the highest quality of treatment, and for finding “missing pieces” of the puzzle that interferes with a child’s communication progress. I’m thrilled to be serving the families of North Utah County. I operate my private clinic, Timpanogos Speech Clinic, in the beautiful valley of Highland, Utah.

My areas of speciality

I specialize in speech sound disorders, myofunctional therapy, expressive language, and reading disorders—including dyslexia. I also have extensive experience in working with children on the autism spectrum.

The Timpanogos Speech Philosophy

Simplicity

Therapy doesn’t have to be complex or elaborate, in fact it shouldn’t be. When you understand the sequence of learning, then the execution can be simple and fun.

Mindfulness

Each child comes as a package deal, with their own unique developmental patterns in motor, sensory, cognitive and emotional skills. When you make observing a habit, you will realize what pieces are missing, and know where to begin.

Depth of Knowledge

Even the best college can’t prepare an SLP for all of the different challenges in communication disorders. Continuing education is a high priority for me. Through increasing my depth of knowledge I’ve become adept at treating the root causes of speech and language disorders.

My son’s experience with mastering his “R’s” was so positive! Very rapid progress, he always looked forward to speech therapy. She used lots of fun games and activities, would definitely recommend!

Denise has been one of the best things to happen to our family! My oldest son was a bit of a tricky case, including non-verbal until 3.5 years, severe ADHD impacting communication, and a velopharyngeal insufficiency, amongst other muscular issues impacting his speech. At 3 years old, he was evaluated to be lower than the 1st percentile for expressive language and we felt hopeless. After years of feelings frustrated with the lack of progress my son made with other SLPs, we found Miss Denise and have experienced a night and day difference in progress. My son was able to graduate from needing services within 9 months, which is astounding considering previous providers estimated that he would need speech therapy into his teens and claimed he would never "speak normally" even with extensive speech therapy. But with Miss Denise's dedication and patience, my son is now speaking at developmentally appropriate levels, with full intelligibility. I am so impressed with how incredibly knowledgeable and dedicated she is. I also love that she explains treatment or things to watch for, so that I feel more equipped as a parent. In addition to speech improvement, we have noticed a marked improvement in my son's executive function skills, his self control, and his confidence. Miss Denise is firm yet incredibly kind and playful, which helped so much in the therapy process and developing these new skills. Our second son has now started therapy with Miss Denise and we are already seeing improvement in his enunciation, ability to communication, and a reduction in communication-related meltdowns. We love Miss Denise! ♥️

Denise is the best speech pathologist we have found! She does detailed assessments and progressive therapy. I highly recommend her!

Denise is great to work with. My 15 yr old struggled with a tongue thrust which made it difficult to correct his teeth while wearing braces. Denise helped him work through it with various exercises and techniques. He has improved a lot. I highly recommend her.

Denise has been so great to work with. My daughter, who has apraxia, has made big strides while attending speech therapy with Denise. Denise make the therapy fun and interactive. She is great at keeping my daughter involved the whole time and not letting her get bored or frustrated. She is very knowledgeable and works great with my daughter. I have been very impressed. I would definitely recommend Denise to others.

We loved our 2+ years with Denise. She was extremely patient and amazing with my now 5 year old daughter. She was very good at keeping my daughter on task and very good and changing strategies on a dime when needed to make the most of each session.

We had a great experience working with Denise. We worked with her with 6 months. I appreciated that she did a full evaluation and talked us about results and goals. She had fun activities and our child loved going every week. Would highly recommend!

Denise is my life saver. She was able to figure out ways to help my son and make him love learning and always look forward to see her every time. She was amazing at working around our schedule and always professional too. Highly recommended.

I am taking speech therapy for accent reduction & it’s been amazing all the progress I have achieved by working with them

I brought my 2 year old to see Angie and Denise at Timpanogas Speech Clinic because I was worried about him not speaking as much as other kids his age. They were amazing! I love how thorough they are and goal-oriented. As soon as he would reach the goals they laid out, they would evaluate him and lay out more goals until they got him on age-level! And then they were amazing enough to say that he is ready to "graduate" from speech. This clinic is honest, friendly, thorough, and amazing. I couldn't be happier with the service we received.

My 11 year old son has had a wonderful experience with Denise. She has an amazing program to help others learn to say their “R’s”. I highly recommend her. I was so impressed how quickly my son was saying “R’s”. Although some words are harder than others, it took time to learn and say more difficult words but it was so rewarding to hear him say a word with an R in it for the first time. Denise would send a practice sheet home with us so he could work on pronouncing the R throughout the week. This was very helpful and reminded my so to keep trying to pronounce the R in normal conversations each day. I am so proud of his accomplishment. Thanks Denise!

My son loved going to see "mrs. Denise". She was super helpful in helping him improve his speech and very quickly. She worked great with him and he adored her and was always excited to go 🙂

She has done an excellent job helping our son speak more clearly. We are very happy. Our son felt very comfortable with her. She was encouraging and motivating. I definitely recommend her clinic.

My four year old son has had many wonderful speech therapist but, Ms. Denise has been AMAZING. She has really helped my son's speech progression. The technique and methods which she uses are far more advanced than any other Austin has experienced. Really happy with the results we are getting. Austin looks forward to his "play time" with Denise. I am deeply grateful for her gift with children, her talent to be very observant and professional help to me as a parent. Thank you for helping give Austin the gift of speech.

Denise has been working with our son since he was 2. He initially was delayed with his speech, which developed into speech that was undecipherable for years. Our son is now 6 and he is a little chatterbox that we can understand, and we’re now at a point we can take a break from therapy. She truly is a specialist and goes above and beyond to find the root cause of the issue and she has been such a valuable resource to our family. Thank you Denise!

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