Lakes Speech & Language Pathology

About Lakes Speech & Language Pathology

Lakes Speech & Language Pathology, LLC, also called Lakes SLP, provides speech-language pathology services for children, adolescents, and adults in Commerce Twp, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The practice offers screening, evaluation, treatment, and consulting for a range of communication and medical needs, with in-office and teletherapy options. Adult services may address concerns related to stroke, TIA, brain injury, concussion, brain surgery or other brain-related conditions, stuttering, ADHD or ADD, dementia support, dysphagia, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Pediatric services include work on expressive and receptive language, articulation and phonological skills, stuttering and cluttering, reading comprehension, pre-reading phonological skills, and cognition skills such as attention, organization, memory, executive function, and study skills.

The clinic describes its care as individualized, person-based, and family-integrated, with treatment plans shaped around the client’s goals and needs. Pediatric therapy is described as play-based and neurodiversity-affirming, while adult therapy targets individualized, client-based goals and may involve loved ones depending on the diagnosis. The speech-language pathology team includes Sarah Waldie, MA, CCC-SLP, clinical director and adult and pediatric speech-language pathologist; Candice Smale, MA, CCC-SLP, a pediatric speech-language pathologist with interests in early intervention, late talkers, childhood apraxia of speech, gestalt language processing, and natural language acquisition; Victoria Hannawa, M.A., CF-SLP, a bilingual speech-language pathologist with interests in early childhood language, stuttering, and cognitive-communication; Tracy Mussatto, MA, CCC-SLP, who works with adult and adolescent clients and specializes in neurorehabilitation; and Lauren Stawecki, MA, CCC-SLP, who works with adults and adolescents and has experience with neurorehabilitation, stuttering, Parkinson’s-related speech disorders, stroke, TBI, concussion, dementia, voice, and neurodegenerative diagnoses.

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