ABOUT US

Each of our St. Paul speech and language therapists is licensed with the state of Minnesota and holds a certificate of clinical competence (CCC) from the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA).  ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for Speech and Language Pathologists. To be in good standing with ASHA our speech and language therapists are required to complete a minimum number of continuing education units (CEU’s) per year.
At ACE Speech, professional development is vitally important and every effort is made to keep our speech and language therapists current with evolving issues and treatments in the speech and language pathology field.

Katie Dauer M.S., CCC

Kathleen (Katie) Dauer is the owner of ACE Speech and Language Clinic, LLC.  Katie has been a Speech and Language Pathologist since 1984 after attending Minnesota State University at Mankato where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Speech and Language Pathology.  Katie held speech and language therapist positions at United and Children's Hospital in St. Paul, a private ENT clinic and a start up private practice before starting ACE Speech and Language Clinic, LLC in 1996.  Her areas of expertise are in the treatment of fluency disorders (stuttering, cluttering), phonological disorders, language disorders and verbal apraxia.  In 1996, Katie published the book "Becoming Verbal and Intelligible" (Purchase Book from Pro Ed) for speech and language pathologists to assist in the treatment of verbal apraxia and phonological disorders.  She has spoken on the topic of verbal apraxia at the state and national level.  Katie is recognized by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Specialty Board on Fluency Disorders and by the Stuttering Foundation of America as a specialist of fluency disorders.