Laura Mize, MS, CCC-SLP, is a pediatric speech-language pathologist who specializes in treating young children, ages birth to four, with communication delays and disorders in her private practice outside Louisville, Kentucky. She earned a BS in communication disorders from Mississippi University for Women and an MS in speech-language pathology from The University of Southern Mississippi. Laura also holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She founded the website teachmetotalk.com, hosts a popular weekly podcast and sells her training DVDs and therapy manuals to parents and professionals both in the USA and internationally. Her materials are used by early intervention professionals and speech-language pathologists in graduate training programs and continuing education conferences.