Speech, language, and literacy.
One connected system, treated that way.
The Literacy Loop is a private speech-language pathology practice serving families in the western suburbs of Chicago, specializing in speech, language, and literacy services for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Through individualized, evidence-based evaluations and therapy, I work directly with families to find the language system breakdown underneath their child's struggle and build a plan that actually addresses it.
Speech, language, and literacy.
One connected system,
treated that way.
The Literacy Loop is a private speech-language pathology practice serving families in the western suburbs of Chicago, specializing in speech, language, and literacy services for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Through individualized, evidence-based evaluations and therapy, I work directly with families to find the language system breakdown underneath their child's struggle and build a plan that actually addresses it.
Maybe your child has been in the school's intervention tiers for years and never seems to graduate out of them. Maybe they're guessing at words instead of decoding them, avoiding writing, or getting through a passage without retaining a single thing they read.
Maybe they had speech sound errors when they were younger that everyone said they'd grow out of, and now reading and spelling are the struggle. Or maybe your child is in kindergarten and the connections that are supposed to click just aren't clicking, and something in your gut is telling you not to wait.
These are not signs that your child isn't trying. They are signs that the language system underneath the skill hasn't been addressed. That's what this practice looks for.
You're not imagining it,
and you're not alone.
Rebecca brings a decade of pediatric experience across school, clinic, and medical settings to The Literacy Loop. She is certified in Orton-Gillingham through IMSE, trained in PROMPT Level 1 and Visualizing and Verbalizing, and currently completing certification as a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Interventionist through IDA/CERI. She treats speech, language, and literacy as one connected system built around what each child's evaluation actually shows.
Speech-language pathology and structured literacy
in one clinician.
Rebecca Pearson, M.S., CCC-SLP/L
In-Home Therapy, No Office Visits Required
Full Testing, Clear Report,
Truly Individualized Plan
Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
Certified IMSE
Orton-Gillingham Practitioner
Reading, writing, and spelling are language skills. Which means a reading disorder is a language disorder, and language disorders need a provider trained in the language system from the neurological root up.
Reading is not natural. The brain has no dedicated circuit for it the way it does for spoken language, so every reader has to build one, wiring together phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax, and meaning into a single system. When any one of those layers is weak, the whole system strains to compensate. The struggle a parent sees on the page is almost always the surface of something further down: the guessing, the slow decoding, the spelling that never sticks.
Most providers see one piece of the picture. A reading specialist addresses decoding. A neuropsychologist maps the cognitive profile. Each works their slice. But the brain doesn't learn in slices. It learns in systems. When those systems are treated in isolation, even by skilled providers, the connections never get built. And the connections are the whole point.
Speech-language pathologists who specialize in literacy hold the whole arc, from the way the brain processes sound all the way through to how those sounds become words on a page. That's what this practice is built to do.
