Therapist

Ashley Walker, owner of The Speech Space, has worked as a speech pathologist in a variety of settings for 11 years. She began her career working in skilled nursing and in-patient hospital settings before transitioning to pediatric therapy in 2012. She has worked in private practice settings and served as the clinical director of a large speech-ABA therapy center for 3 years. Throughout her career, her focus has been in the areas of feeding, oral motor, swallowing, and severe speech disorders, including those caused by tethered oral tissue (i.e. tongue and lip ties) and persistent sucking/oral habits (i.e. thumb sucking, pacifier use). Ashley is one of only a few certified orofacial myologists in Houston and is also certified by Apraxia Kids to treat childhood apraxia of speech. Ashley earned a B.A. in psychology from Trinity University in 2005 and a M.S. in communication sciences and disorders from University of South Florida in 2008.