Center for Speech and Language Development

About Center for Speech and Language Development

The Center for Speech & Language Development is a private practice based in Skokie, Illinois, serving families across the Chicagoland area. The practice provides pediatric speech-language services in several settings, including the clinic, the home, schools, daycares, and virtual sessions. For adults, the clinic offers accent modification in person and remotely. The website presents this flexible service model as a way to make therapy more accessible and to help clients practice skills in the environments where they use them every day. For children, the practice describes support for speech, language, articulation, fluency, feeding, swallowing, and social communication needs, with services available from infancy through adolescence.

The practice is led by founder Lisa Koenigsberg, MS, CCC-SLP, a licensed speech-language pathologist and certified accent modification coach with more than two decades of experience in the Chicago area. Her clinical interests include feeding and swallowing, oral-motor coordination, language development, apraxia, dysarthria, articulation, and adult accent modification. The site also lists additional licensed and certified speech-language pathologists, including Leraaen Abbott, Marissa Baras, Catie Pappas, Sarah Roffe, Kaylee Tolley, and Rose Zavaleta. Their bios describe experience in areas such as expressive and receptive language, articulation, AAC, autism, literacy, fluency, bilingual treatment, and pediatric feeding-related concerns. Across the team, the site emphasizes individualized care, family involvement, and treatment that is adapted to the client’s goals rather than using a standard program for everyone. For adult accent modification, the clinic describes one-on-one programs that target pronunciation, rhythm, syllable stress, intonation, and speaking rate, with weekly sessions and home practice built into the plan.

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