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Dedicated to helping children reach their speech and language potential.
Speech / Language Delays?
As a parent, you want the best for your child and communication delays can keep you awake at night.
I can help! As a 30-year veteran of solving speech and language delays, I help kids conquer just about everything. I specialize in:
- speech sound disorder
- myofunctional therapy
- language
- reading disorders
- social skill acquisition
- dyslexia
- autism spectrum and all its challenges
The Value of Experience
I am constantly researching and learning new methods of therapy. Recently I certified in myofunctional therapy and have seen kids graduate 50% faster! Every case is different, of course, but you can be confident I have the experience to help your child overcome their delays and gain the confidence for life.
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!
Had a great experience with Denise. My son had a hard time with saying his S sounds. His tongue would come out of his mouth. I figured it would correct itself as he got older but it didn't. She suggested myofunctional therapy. I wasn't sure if that would work, but it did. She worked with us for months and my sons tongue is now on the right spot all the time and is no longer a mouth breather. She was kind and patient and my son liked her. By the end he said he was a little sad to be done. She is honest. She was telling us we were done and didn't need to keep coming which I appreciated as speech costs can add up. She was not taking advantage of us. I would recommend her. We will miss seeing her.
Working with Denise has been a blessing. She cared for both of my daughters. One with developmental delays and one needing to polish up her speech before college. My oldest through speech therapy has gained confidence enough to be elected to her student body organization two years in a row. She will be attending college with a near full ride scholarship because of her participation in extracurricular activities and grades. She wouldn't have had the confidence to attempt the student body because of her speech or not getting speech therapy. Her younger sister went from constant frustration because no one can understand her to total strangers can understand her. She will need more therapy after some more adult teeth comes in, for future braces and mouth palate expands. Until then, we're holding off. But we know who to call and get in back in with.
Denise has worked with 2 of our children and it has been a great experience. She has a great rapport with the kids and was thorough and effective.