Katie Weeks Laher

Co-Founder &

Speech-Language Pathologist, M.S. CCC-SLP

Katie is a speech-language pathologist who has a passion for helping children with communication disorders grow. She has experience working with children of all ages in various clinical settings and believes in fun, effective, family centered therapy. She works closely with families to provide personalized therapy in order to meet the needs and individual differences of each child. 

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Katie received her Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology from Miami University of Ohio and her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is a certified member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), the California Speech-Language Hearing Association (CSHA) and is licensed within the State of California. She has specialized training in DIR/Floortime, SCERTS and the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading.

TJ Laher

Co-Founder & Operations

After graduating from UC Berkeley, TJ found himself working with a variety of disruptive technology companies in the Bay Area launching products and growing companies through data driven marketing techniques. Before Speech SF, TJ was head of marketing for an early stage AI company called Primer. Prior to Primer, he worked at Cloudera for over 4 years helping it grow from a $50M revenue privately held company into the publicly traded company it is today. He has had the opportunity to help Fortune 500 companies digitally transform their client experience through technology and AI and he's excited to bring that experience to the speech therapy world. 

Kaleigh VanVolkenburgh

Speech-Language Pathologist, M.S. CCC-SLP

Originally from upstate NY, Kaleigh decided to move to San Francisco in pursuit of more sunshine. She received her undergraduate and graduate training in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Spanish from Ithaca College, located in Ithaca, NY. Kaleigh's areas of clinical experience include autism, articulation,  language, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), voice, cognitive communication and dysphagia. Kaleigh has worked in preschools, elementary and middle schools, rehabilitation centers, private university clinics and in the client's home. She is a certified trainer in Hanen's "More than Words". In her free time, Kaleigh enjoys hiking and traveling around the Bay Area. 

Meghan Kawecki

Speech-Language Pathologist, M.S. CCC-SLP

Meghan Kawecki, M.S.,CCC-SLP has worked in private practice and private school settings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. In her 8 years as a speech language pathologist, her background includes working with children ages 20 months to 12 years with language delays, auditory processing disorders, language-learning disabilities, social communication disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, orofacial myofunctional disorders, articulation and phonological disorders.

She has completed Bridging PROMPT© Technique to Intervention and is also trained in Kay Toomey’s SOS Approach to Feeding, Deborah Beckman’s Beckman Oral Motor Assessment and Intervention, Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson’s Talk Tools: Oral Placement Therapy, and Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking curriculum. She also has experience implementing Lindamood-Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing and Webber HearBuilder programs. 

Meghan has several years of experience using a co-treatment model with physical therapists and occupational therapists and thus strives to use a whole-child approach to treatment. She is a CA licensed and ASHA certified SLP and a recipient of ASHA's Award for Continuing Education.

Maple

Chief Cuddle Pup

Maple has been a professional cuddler for over 3 years. She has a PhD in snuggles with a speciality in face licking. When times get tough she always knows how to help.