Meet the experts

Jennifer Dahms completed her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.  She has worked in two different counties in Wisconsin, providing Birth-to-Three and outpatient therapy services.  She moved to Boise, Idaho in 2006 and initially worked for St. Luke’s Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Services for two years.  Jennifer then opened her own private practice, Valley Pediatric Feeding LLC, in October 2008.  Over the course of her career, she has focused the majority of her continuing education on pediatric feeding disorders.  Jennifer earned ASHA’s ACE Award in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017. She initially became Board Certified in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders in 2011.  She is a member of the Dysphagia Research Society and is a SIG 13 member.  Jennifer has presented on pediatric feeding disorders at state and regional conferences as well as with several online webinars.

K. Todd Houston, PhD, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT is a Professor, speech-language pathologist, and a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist (Cert. AVT). For more than 20 years, his professional focus has been serving young children with hearing loss and their families who are learning to listen and acquire spoken language. Over the past decade, Dr. Houston has incorporated telepractice into his service delivery and continues to provide direct services each week, both in-person and through telepractice, to young children with hearing loss and their families. He has authored/edited three recent books through Plural Publishing: Telepractice In Speech-Language Pathology (2014), Assessing Listening and Spoken Language in Children with Hearing Loss (with Dr. Tamala Bradham, 2015), and Telepactice In Audiology (with Dr. Emma Rushbrooke, 2016). 

Nancy B. Swigert, MA, CCC, BCS-S, is president of Swigert & Assoc., Inc., her consulting company, through which she continues to teach and write in the areas of dysphagia, coding, reimbursement, documentation and management techniques. She has written numerous books and articles in clinical and management areas. She received her master’s degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  She was President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1998.  She received the Honors of ASHA in 2015.