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Erin has over 20 years of experience as a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP). After receiving her Master’s Degree from NIU, she worked as an SLP in the rehabilitation hospital setting for 5 years before moving full-time into the elementary school setting where she has remained since 2006. Erin is a fun-loving, caring therapist passionate about working with children and helping them find their voices.

She has a passion for connecting with her clients and providing therapy services that are family-centered, structured, fun, and creative, but challenging enough to help children reach their therapeutic goals and potential, as well as build relationships, share ideas, learn, and grow. She uses a language-based approach to provide language-rich lessons during her sessions.

During her free time, Erin enjoys spending quality time with her family. She is a proud mom and the biggest cheerleader at her children’s sporting events and school activities. She can often be found at the soccer, baseball, or softball fields. She also loves to read, spend time outdoors, and travel when she can.

Erin’s specialties include:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD
• Articulation and phonological disorders
• Apraxia of speech
• Functional Communication
• Receptive/Expressive language delays and disorders
• Pragmatic language delays
• Fluency disorders
• Language/auditory processing disorders
• Executive functioning disorders
• Feeding and Swallowing disorders
• Vocabulary delays

Jeanette has been working as a speech-language pathologist since 2016, with experience in clinic, Early Intervention, and school settings. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders and Sciences from Southern Illinois University, and her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Illinois State University. She is a bilingual therapist fluent in Russian.

Jeanette’s favorite part of being an SLP is the variety of working with different childhood ages, needs, and backgrounds. She prioritizes working with the whole family to carry over skills outside of therapy sessions and promote confident communication. She has experience evaluating and treating a variety of communication disorders, including speech sound disorders, language delays and disorders, fluency disorders, and social communication disorders. She has particular interest and experience in working with Stuttering and other types of disfluent speech, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Developmental Language Disorder, and early Language Delays.

Jeanette regularly furthers her learning and prioritizes professional development as new challenges and needs arise. She is continuously evaluating what works and doesn’t work for each child and researching new treatment strategies to best meet clients’ needs and make expected progress.

Jeanette grew up in Vernon Hills and currently lives in Dundee with her husband two young sons. In her spare time, she enjoys working out, reading, and exploring all the features the suburbs have to offer.

Lauren received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Elmhurst University. For the past two years, she has worked in the private practice setting, where she enjoys partnering closely with families to create meaningful, personalized therapy plans. Lauren is passionate about fostering supportive relationships and empowering families throughout every step of the therapeutic journey.

Lauren is passionate about incorporating neurodiversity-affirming practices into her treatment approach, ensuring that each child’s strengths, preferences, and individuality are honored throughout the therapeutic process. She is dedicated to creating a supportive environment where children feel confident and understood. Lauren finds great joy in watching each child grow, build new skills, and develop into the best version of themselves.

Areas of Expertise:

• Gestalt Language Processing
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Incorporating Sensory and Regulation Strategies
• Articulation and Phonological Disorder
• Expressive and Receptive Language Delays
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• Fluency Disorders
• Pragmatic Language Disorders

Outside of work, Lauren enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends and takes every opportunity to be outdoors when the weather is warm. Her greatest passion is dancing, which she has been doing for the past 23 years. She currently teaches dance classes and helps coach a competition dance team, sharing her love of movement and mentorship with the next generation of dancers.

Annalise has worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist for over 10 years, focusing on treating adolescents and young adults in the school setting. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Speech and Hearing Science from Arizona State University and her master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Valdosta State University. She understands the importance of working with families to help generalize skills outside of therapy sessions.

Her areas of expertise include:

● Articulation and Phonology
● Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
● Social Communication
● Expressive and Receptive Language
● Autism Spectrum Disorder
● Dysphagia
● Fluency

In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places with her husband and two boys, baking, staying active, and spending time with friends.

Karine Rocha de Benedicto, M.S., C.C.C. is our supervising speech therapist. Karine joined our team in 2021 and has helped a number of people earn their certificate of clinical competence in speech and language pathology as well as created the training modules for our SLP Assistants and Aides. Karine currently provides telehealth speech language pathology services to patients of all ages and diagnoses. She is licensed in Connecticut, California and Florida.

A graduate of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, Karine’s passions include aphasia, dysarthria, and cognitive communication disorders. Passionate about making an impact in the lives of her patients, Karine strives to provide them with person-centered quality care that empowers, enhances, and supports development, preservation and rehabilitation of communication cognition and social and emotional skills. Karine does an amazing job of meeting people where they are and helping them achieve their individual goals.

In her free time Karine enjoys reading, photography, walks in the woods and spending time with family! She is the proud of aunt of two beauties!

About Shine Health & Wellness

At Shine Health and Wellness in Pasadena, California, patients receive comprehensive wellness services for a wide range of health conditions. Kimberley Shine, MD, offers her patients unmatched expertise and extensive one-on-one care.

As a student at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Shine was surprised to discover that the curriculum focused on each organ system separately. Her coursework also defined health solely through the absence of disease. However, Dr. Shine knew there had to be more to the practice of medicine than these traditional methods.

Dr. Shine realized that the doctor-patient relationship is the foundation of medicine. She understood that it's essential for patients to feel that they can trust their physician. In turn, physicians must listen to their patients and validate their patients’ feelings.

After spending more than a decade as a family medicine doctor, Dr. Shine decided to develop a practice that reflects her own values. She discovered integrative and functional medicine and quickly incorporated these core concepts into her practice.

Dr. Shine knows that it's not enough to simply treat symptoms as they arise. Instead, doctors must work together with patients to identify the root cause of their health problems. At Shine Health and Wellness, this close doctor-patient relationship is at the core of Dr. Shine's work. She takes pride in helping patients feel educated and empowered by their health care decisions.

Today, Dr. Shine is proud to be a part of a thriving practice that includes experienced nurses, a lifestyle coach, and a licensed acupuncturist. Along with the rest of her team, Dr. Shine strives to provide each patient with personalized, evidence-based medical care that improves their quality of life.

Shirley Tennyson is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist with special interest and training in voice disorders. As a mezzo-soprano and an actress, her background as a soloist in opera, recital, and oratorio led her to specialization in working with singers, actors, and other professional voice users. She graduated with Master's Degrees from Ohio University and Columbia University.

She provides voice evaluations and voice therapy in our office while also maintaining a private practice in Manhattan where she specializes in working with all types of voice disorders and especially those impacting the professional voice user.