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Kay Guelfi, MS, CCC-SLP
 Clinic Director

Kay earned her Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders from St. Cloud State University.  She has been working as a speech and language pathologist for 14 years.  She has worked in both a hospital pediatric rehabilitation unit and for the educational system.  In that time, she has worked to develop an auditory-oral integrated classroom for children with hearing impairments, develop an inpatient pediatric traumatic brain injury program and has been part of a cleft palate team.  Kay’s areas of interest include working with children who have recently received cochlear implants, working with very young children who are not yet talking and working with children who have childhood apraxia of speech.

 


 

Kristy Knutson, MSE, CCC-SLP
Speech/Language Pathologist

In 2002, Kristy earned a Master of Science degree in Education in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls.  She maintains a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and a license from the Minnesota Department of Health.  Kristy has worked as a speech and language pathologist in a private school setting and has worked for the RiteCare Language Clinic of Elk River since January of 2005.  Her areas of special interest include language development and how it relates to literacy, phonemic awareness, phonological development and vocabulary acquisition through pre-literacy activities.  When she is not working, Kristy enjoys spending a lot of time outdoors with her husband and two young daughters.

 

 

Laura Schroeder
Office Manager

Laura joined the RiteCare staff in February 2006 as our office manager.  In addition to college coursework and business education, Laura came to us with 20 years of business experience in the direct marketing, finance and customer service fields.  She is also an experienced genealogist.