Gail Dudesek
MS, CCC- SLP/L
Peer Mentorship Leader
Gail went to undergrad and graduate school at Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University). After completing her student internship with Pediatric Interactions, Gail officially joined the PI family in 2016. She has serviced children from 1-21 years of age in Cook county, McHenry county, and Lake county. Since her time at Pediatric Interactions, she has years of experience within the therapeutic school setting, home environment (through the Illinois Early Intervention program), private therapy within the clinic setting, as well as telepractice within the state of Illinois. Gail had the opportunity to expand 'Monkey Group' and 'Singing and Signing' programs to the McHenry clinic. In addition, she assisted in generating the 'Artic Talk' program available through the Pediatric Interactions website.
In her down time, Gail enjoys sharing her 30+ years of polynesian dancing/culture, going for bike rides/walks/hikes, completing unique puzzles, and spending time with her family. Her family loves board games- especially Catan, Bananagrams, and Trivial Pursuit!.
Since she began at Pediatric Interactions she had the opportunity to attend the following trainings: Zones of Regulation, Brain Gym, TalkTools, Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration (MNRI), Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT), Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP), M.O.R.E. (Motor-Oral-Respiration-Eyes) Integrating the Mouth with Sensory and Postural Functions, Building Blocks of Supervision, SOS Approach to Feeding, and Childhood of Apraxia (Kaufman).
Parent Testimonials
“Our child” would only TV talk and have very brief 3-4 sentence interactions a few years ago, no we can have full-on conversations! Very “Our child” driven of course but the back and forth exchange and processing leaps he has made is because “Our therapist” has made those connections with him and our Family could. Or be more grateful! Xoxo”
— 8/6/2021
