Here to help you connect the dots to improve your child’s speech, language and literacy.

One of a kind speech therapy for your child.

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What can I help you with?

Speech therapy services

Parent coaching & Consultations

ENRICHMENT CLASSES

SUPPORT FOR BUSINESSES

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Hey there!

I’m Candice

It’s so nice to e-meet you!

I am a licensed and ASHA certified Speech Language Pathologist. I graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Speech and Hearing Science and earned a Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology from Northern Illinois University. In my 10+ years of experience, I’ve provided care in a variety of settings including inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics and schools. I’m excited to bring my skills and expertise to you through private practice!

Wondering if Your Child Needs Support?

There’s No Risk in Starting the Evaluation—Only the Chance to Better Understand their communication profile

Candice Grudowski SLP, LLC is a trusted, community-based pediatric speech therapy practice proudly serving families on the North Shore and in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I specialize in personalized, play-based speech and language therapy for children from birth to age 12.

Each therapy session is child-led and designed to meet the unique needs of your child. Therapy is tailored to what motivates and matters most to them.

Parents are an essential part of the process. I work closely with you to share effective strategies and home-based activities that help your child make meaningful progress beyond our sessions.

Early support matters. Let's build the foundation for communication, confidence, and connection—together.

What They’re Saying

  • "I have had the gift of observing Candice supervise, collaborate, and work directly with providers, clients, and families. Candice knows her craft well and is a masterful supervisor and mentor. Candice helped build our speech program and her expertise, resources, and communication has helped us build a program that helps our client's grow!"

    Marissa Bennett

  • "Candice is one of the best therapists we have worked with overall, including other speech pathologists, occupational therapists, myofunctional therapists, and psycho-therapists. She connects with her clients and makes them feel comfortable during each session. She gives clear and direct instruction with her clients, gives personal feedback to parents and child, and is continually using positive praise during the sessions to help motivate their success. Having Candice come to our home for the session setting made a big difference in the work. We experienced outside speech services at a different clinic, and Candice’s at home instruction was much more meaningful to our child’s success. We saw a huge improvement with our child’s ability to clearly communicate, use word finding strategies, and also self monitor his own speech. Candice was very professional throughout our whole experience. She is very thorough with her observations, clinical feedback, and evaluations. My child looked forward to our speech days with Candice every week. We couldn’t be happier with the success we have seen."

    -Katie, Parent of 6 year old client

  • "Candice really helped our child overcome significant reading challenges. She related very well to our child, engaging her with games so it never felt like too much work. We saw incredible improvement in her reading skills. During that time, we appreciated Candice's flexibility and commitment. This really paid off. Thank you!"

    Matt, Parent of 11 year old client