Kristie Gatto, MA, CCC-SLP, COM® received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in the public and private settings. Ms. Gatto became the first certified orofacial myologist in the city of Houston in 2011. She is currently the owner of The Speech and Language Connection, which has two offices in the greater Houston area and multiple speech-language pathologists with various specialties.

Financial: Kristie Gatto is the author of three books Understanding the Orofacial Complex: The Evolution of Dysfunction (Outskirts Press, 2016), Understanding the Orofacial Complex – Muscle Manual (Outskirts Press, 2014), and Sam the Super Chewer, Eats (Mindstir Media, 2016) for which she receives royalty payments.  She is the owner and a treating clinician with The Speech and Language Connection in Houston, as well as an instructor for the International Association of Orofacial Myology for which she is paid.

Non-financial: Kristie Gatto is a Past President of the International Association of Orofacial Myology, a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a current Board of Directors member of the Oral Motor Institute. Additionally, she has served as a Board of Directors member for the American Academy of Private Practitioners in Speech Pathology and Audiology and a member of the Community Advisory Board at the University of Houston.

Amanda Chastain is an ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) certified and Kentucky licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with specific focus in the areas of Orofacial Myology and Pediatric Feeding.  She is a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®) through The International Association of Orofacial Myology.  As the owner and director of The Speech Network Pediatric Feeding and Orofacial Myology Clinic in Lexington KY, she dedicates her focus of practice to infants and toddlers with feeding difficulties as well as teens and adults with orofacial myofunctional deficits.  Amanda is a Past President of the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM), an approved IAOM instructor and provides trainings for infant and toddler feeding through her GoMAP (Guided Oral Movements with Active Patterning) Program.

Financial: Amanda Chastain is also the owner and a treating clinician with The Speech Network in Lexington, KY, as well as an instructor for the International Association of Orofacial Myology for which she is paid.

Non-financial: Amanda Chastain is the immediate Past President of the International Association of Orofacial Myology, a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and actively involved in her community providing speaking engagements for moms and families of patients with oromyofunctional dysfunction and feeding difficulties

Angie earned her Associate Degree in Dental Hygiene from Pennsylvania College of Technology in 1999. She began practicing Orofacial Myology in 2012 and received her Certification from the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) in 2014. Angie is the owner of Oral Myofunctional Therapy of York (OMT of York).

Financial: Angie Lehman is also the owner and a treating clinician with Oral Myofunctional Therapy of York in York, Pennsylvania, as well as an instructor for which she is paid.

Non-financial: Angie Lehman has served on the Board of Directors member for the International Association of Orofacial Myology, a member of the Pennsylvania Dental Hygiene Association (PDHA) and actively involved in her community providing speaking engagements for families of patients with oromyofunctional dysfunction.

Course objectives:
Understand basic dental terminology commonly used in Orofacial Myology
Recognize changes in craniofacial growth due to OMDs
Identify common dental classification systems for facial growth and malocclusions