Your Instructors

Kristie K Gatto,
 MA, CCC-SLP, COM®, CBS

Speech-Language Pathologist, feeding specialist, Certified Orofacial Myologist, Certified Breath Coach, Certified Posture Specialist, Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, Cranio-sacral-fascial trained (CFT)

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 of a private practice in Houston, as well as an instructor for many courses on Orofacial Myology, feeding, tethered tissues, and sleep for which she is paid.

Non-financial: Kristie Gatto is a currently on the Editorial review board for the Dental Sleep Practice Magazine.  She is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a past president of the International Association of Orofacial Myology.  Additionally, she has served as a Board of Directors member for the Oral Motor Institute, American Academy of Private Practitioners in Speech Pathology and Audiology and a member of the Community Advisory Board at the University of Houston.

Amanda Moore Chastain,
MA, CCC-SLP, COM®

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 a private practice 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 instructor and provides training for infant and toddler feeding through her ASHA-approved GoMAP (Guided Oral Movements with Active Patterning) Program.Â