Yvette McCoy, M.S., CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Yvette is a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 25 years of experience specializing in adult neurological rehabilitation with a special interest in dysphagia. She owns Speak Well Solutions, LLC., a private practice in Leonardtown, Maryland and is the Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Clinical Professor at Moravian College. She is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a board certified swallowing specialist, eleven time ACE Awardee, mentor and CFY supervisor. Yvette enjoys volunteering her time to advance the field and has served on several ASHA committees including the SIG 13 Editorial Review Committee and the ASHA Convention Swallowing Topic Committee.
Owner
Yvette is a guest lecturer and invited speaker at regional and national conferences on topics related to adult swallowing disorders and private practice. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders, and is the Public Relations Committee Chair. She is a member of the Dysphagia Research Society where she has served on the Website Communications and Public Relations Committee. She is co-creator/author of the mobile app ‘Dysphagia Therapy’, and The Adult Dysphagia Clinician’s Pocket Guide: From Neuroanatomy to Clinical Practice by Plural Publishing. Finally, she is a McNeill Dysphagia Therapy Program (MDTP) instructor for the Florida Dysphagia Institute.
Elizabeth Buscema, M.S., CCC-SLP
Elizabeth is a language from upstate New York. She received her Bachelor’s in Communication Disorder from SUNY Cortland and her Master’s degree in the same field from Loyola University Maryland. Elizabeth is a special needs mom to three wonderful children. This experience helps Elizabeth provide family-focused care. Elizabeth has extensive experience working in multiple pediatric settings.
Clinical Director and Practitioner
Elizabeth has specialty trainings in the following areas: sensory-motor approach to feeding, orofacialmyology, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), oral motor training with TalkTools, and It Takes Two to Talk/Hanen. Elizabeth also frequently collaborates with pediatric dentists and other related specialists across the southern Maryland and DC metro area to focus on treating the whole child. She also collaborates with the Focus Foundation and Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic Center for Children.
Kelli Weatherholt, M.S., CCC-SLP
Kelli is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist from Fort Worth, Texas. She received her Bachelor’s in Communication Disorders from Texas Christian University, and her Master’s degree in the same field from West Texas A&M University. She is a proud Navy wife and mom of two beautiful girls. Kelli has served communities in Texas, Virginia, and southern Maryland. She has extensive experience working in the pediatric outpatient setting.
Practitioner
Kelli strives to provide quality care, and advocates that every child is able to access his or her own voice. Kelli treats a wide variety of communication and feeding disorders, including swallowing and eating difficulties, identification of tongue/lip ties, delayed language, articulation disorders, fluency disorders (stuttering) and communication difficulties associated with Autism. Aside from these skill areas, Kelli specializes in alternative augmentative communication (AAC). In all of her sessions, Kelli utilizes child-led and facilitative play based therapy techniques, which are congruent with how children naturally acquire language.
Kirsten Wollschlager, M.S., SLP-A
Kirsten is a licensed Speech Language Pathology Assistant who recently graduated with her Master’s from Loyola University Maryland. Currently, Kirsten is completing her Clinical Fellowship Year with Anne Arundel County Public Schools, as well as continuing to provide teletherapy at Speak Well Solutions.
Practitioner
Kirsten has trained with all practitioners at Speak Well Solutions in the areas of orofacialmyology, feeding/FEES, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), and articulation disorders. She also has experience with fluency disorders (stuttering), delayed language, Down Syndrome, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. During her time at Loyola University Maryland, Kirsten completed an externship at Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, where she worked with children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing. While Kirsten has primarily worked with pediatric patients, she also has experience working with adults in the areas of aphasia, acquired apraxia, and expressive/receptive language.
Margie Jordan
Office Manager
Liz Czerweic
Administrative Assistant
All of Speak Well Solutions’ therapists are certified by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association as well as licensed by the state of Maryland.