Jessica received her undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Following that, she took a year off to gain pediatric therapy experience and served as a para-educator for a year as well as gained experience with formulating and carrying out plans to help adolescent children with ASD gain social skills in various community environments. Jessica then moved to Kansas City to obtain her Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from Rockhurst University.
Jessica’s work experiences have expanded across multiple therapeutic environments including working with school-aged children, preschoolers, and adolescents. Jess has completed continuing education experiences related towards implementing the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) and has a passion for implementing play-based therapy as well as working with kids of all different ages and developmental levels. She loves working with kids and continuing to learn new things every day at Playabilities. Jess is a mother of three children, Mason, Brody, and Adelyn.
She enjoys spending time at baseball games, football games, basketball games, and volleyball games, as well as supporting her husband in all of his sporting endeavors as a coach at a local high school. She spends most spring and summer weekends at baseball tournaments as her husband is coaching her oldest son’s baseball team.
Jessica’s work experiences have expanded across multiple therapeutic environments including working with school-aged children, preschoolers, and adolescents. Jess has completed continuing education experiences related towards implementing the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) and has a passion for implementing play-based therapy as well as working with kids of all different ages and developmental levels. She loves working with kids and continuing to learn new things every day at Playabilities. Jess is a mother of three children, Mason, Brody, and Adelyn.
She enjoys spending time at baseball games, football games, basketball games, and volleyball games, as well as supporting her husband in all of his sporting endeavors as a coach at a local high school. She spends most spring and summer weekends at baseball tournaments as her husband is coaching her oldest son’s baseball team.