I’m Emma Pate, M.S., CCC-SLP and I joined Monkey Mouths in 2018 as the Clinical Director of the Southlake office.  I earned my master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Texas Tech University.  Upon graduation, I moved to California where I worked in private practice and the public schools.  During my time there, I evaluated and treated children with childhood apraxia of speech, fluency disorders, dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder, articulation disorders, language disorders, hearing impairments and dysphagia/feeding disorders. 

As an SLP with over 8 years of experience, I have training and specialization in the following:

• Kaufman Apraxia System
• The Hanen Program It Takes Two to Talk
• S.O.S. Feeding Therapy
• Sound Card System
• PROMPT therapy
• Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing/Edyth Strand PhD, CCC-SLP
• Sensory-Motor Feeding by Lori Overland, M.S., CCC-SLP
• Social Thinking with Michelle Garcia Winner M.S., CCC-SLP
• Preschool Fluency Training by Nina Reardon-Reeves M.S., CCC-SLP
• Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing with Joan Arverdson Ph,D, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, BRS-S, ASHA Fellow
• Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) Specialty Training by Mary Brezik, M.S., CCC-SLP/OMT