Hometown: Manhattan, Kansas

Family: Xiao Min, Jaylen, Rowyn (Tuscan and Xena, the cats...Donna and Deer, the hermit crabs)

Career Experience: 14th year as a speech langauge pathologist/ 9th year being a mom

Time and Assigned Schools within District 365U:

2019/2020: Oak View/Pioneer Elementary School, 2018/2019: Oak View and Irene King Elementary School, 2017/2018: Oak View Elementary School

2016/2017: OakView/Hermansen Elementary School

Past Career Settings: Clinics servicing pre-school and school-aged children, elementary schools, an alternative high school, and a skilled nursing facility/rehabilitation center. 

Areas of Interest: Language Development, Language Analysis of English and foreign languages (semantics/vocabulary, morphology, syntax, phonetics/phonology, pragmatics) and neurogenic communicative disorders. 

Why: I enjoy working with the school-aged population and providing a nurturing/caring environment in order to show how big challenges and difficulties can be overcome by finding smaller, easier steps towards self-improvement.  

Contact: Please contact me anytime if you have any concerns or questions. 

             lineb@vvsd.org     (630) 759-9300