Meet the Provider

Katie Brourman

Experience

For the past 20 years, Katie has worked with children across a variety of pediatric settings including schools (public and therapeutic day), clinical settings (hospital and private) and early intervention. 

During her time working at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Katie gained valuable experience serving as a multidisciplinary team member for Lurie’s Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She also provided bilingual speech and language services at Lurie’s multiple Outpatient Centers and assisted in establishing a bilingual speech and language clinic for the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (in partnership with Lurie). 

Following a move to the suburbs, Katie returned to her roots as a school-based SLP and spent several years working for Wilmette Public Schools. Katie served as District 39’s Early Childhood Itinerant SLP and multidisciplinary team member for the Lechner Early Education Center.

Education

Katie earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology from Marquette University (1999) and a Master’s Degree in Communication Disorders, with a Bilingual Speciality, from New Mexico State University (2001). Katie later expanded her lens by earning a Master’s Degree in Child Development from Erikson Institute (2011), which she completed during a time period she refers to as her “studying babies while having babies and working with babies” phase. 

Background

Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Katie has since resided in Chicago, Milwaukee, California and New Mexico. She completed a semester abroad in Madrid and later spent a summer volunteering at Ministerios De Amor, a group home for children under five years of age in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Katie currently lives in Evanston with her artist husband, two teen children and a Bernadoodle. Katie enjoys gathering with family and friends, traveling, throwing pottery and hiking out west. Katie also loves to dance and holds firm in her personal opinion that there is no such thing as a bad dance movie. 

Certification and Training

Katie is a nationally certified and licensed Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP). She maintains her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) with the American Speech and Hearing Association and state license with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

Professional training includes: Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP), Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets intervention (PROMPT), Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, Social Thinking Methodology, Hanen Program and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2).

Focus Areas

Katie has experience evaluating and treating a wide variety of pediatric communication disorders. Her current areas of focus include: speech sound disorders (childhood apraxia of speech, articulation, phonology), receptive and expressive language delays/disorders, fluency disorders (stuttering), social (pragmatic) communication disorders, autism spectrum and bilingual services (English and Spanish).