Molly Walker Shares Insights about Serving Children with Hearing Loss & Their Families

09/06/21 • 39 min

Molly is a Speech/Language Pathologist and Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist with a passion for supporting families and their children with hearing loss work toward reaching their individual potential. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communicative Disorders from the University of Redlands in Southern California, and Master’s degree from San Francisco State University. She served as the SLP for the Cochlear Implant Team at Children’s Hospital Oakland, and in a lovely twist of fate has returned now that it is called UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland working specifically as a research SLP on a study focused on the efficacy of telepractice. In the dozen years between these jobs, she worked for BabyTalk Teleintervention, early intervention programs for children with hearing loss in West Contra Costa Unified School District, Center for Early Intervention on Deafness, Regional Center of the East Bay, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind and operated a successful private practice in Salt Lake City prior to returning to sunny California. She lives on a couple acres with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and three cats outside of Sacramento. Her family loves spending time outside, exploring new areas, trying new restaurants, and listening to podcasts!

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Hannah Eskridge & Melissa Anderson Discuss Serving Children with Hearing Loss at UNC-Chapel Hill

Hannah Eskridge, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/ Head and Neck Surgery at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Director of the Children’s Cochlear Implant Center at UNC. She has been working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families for 20 years. She conducts Listening and Spoken Language parent participation sessions and tele-therapy sessions. Her primary interests are related to the use of strengths based coaching with professionals throughout the world in order to see the field of Listening and Spoken Language expand as well as working with families just beginning their journey in teaching their children to listen and talk, particularly vulnerable families with limited resources.

Melissa Anderson, AuD, CCC-A is an audiologist at the Children’s Cochlear Implant Center at UNC. She graduated with her Au.D. from the University of Florida in 2014 and has been working at the Children’s Cochlear Implant Center at UNC since 2017. She is interested in finding new ways to use technology to provide care closer to home for her patients.

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Katie Walters Discusses Teaming with other Educators via Telepractice

Katie Walters is a Speech-Language Pathologist who currently serves the school-aged population as a teletherapist. She has worked in a variety of settings with both pediatric and adult populations. Katie lives in Knoxville, TN with her husband, Chris, and their two pups Rosie and Gracie.