Kristie K. Gatto MA, CCC-SLP, COM

Kristie graduated from the University of Houston with a Master of Arts in Communication Disorders. Kristie's experience includes working in public schools, private schools, private practice, rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, early childhood intervention sites, pediatric/children's hospital, and audiology clinics. She has performed diagnosis and treatment of disorders related to orofacial myology, pediatric (toddler/child) feeding aversion, apraxia, disorders related to cleft lip and palate, receptive language disorders, expressive language disorders, aural rehabilitation with an emphasis in intervention fluency, dysphasia, and pragmatic language disorders in infants, pre-school children, school-aged children, and adults

In addition to her work as a Speech-Language Pathologist, Kristie has served on committees regarding eligibility for school-aged students for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, was previously a counselor for sexually assaulted children and adults, and worked for the Alzheimer's Association/Greater Houston Chapter, and The Parish School.

For the past ten years, Kristie has focused her clinical skills on treating younger clients with issues in feeding, dysphagia, deglutition, oral sensory aversion, orofacial myology, swallowing related disorders, as well as articulation, phonological processing, apraxia, early childhood intervention, and semantic language issues among pre-school aged children