Kristi Estes, OTR/L
Kristi graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy in 2000 and has been practicing in the area of pediatrics since that time, with experience in both the home and clinic environments.

Through these different experiences with a wide array of ages and diagnoses, Kristi has developed an expertise in working with children with feeding issues, sensory integration dysfunction, developmental delay, and autism. Additional training has been completed with the SOS Approach to Feeding, oral motor strategies, Handwriting without Tears, and overall sensory integration techniques.

When not working, Kristi enjoys traveling, cooking, and cycling.

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Sharilyn Gugliotta, MS CCC-SLP
Sharilyn moved from south Florida to Forsyth County, Georgia in the summer of 2007. She graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Florida with a Masters degree in speech and language pathology. She has been working with the pediatric population since 1995. Prior to joining Rising Stars Children’s Therapy, Sharilyn worked in many different settings, including a private clinic, a developmental preschool, in an elementary program with autistic children, and did some home health. She specializes in global speech delays, articulation, apraxia, autism, oral motor skills, and works with children with a variety of diagnoses.

When not working, Sharilyn spends time with husband and their two children, and enjoys hiking in the mountains, cooking, and volunteering with Cub Scouts and in her children’s school.

Kim D’Addario, OTR/L
Kim has a bachelor degree in Psychology from Occidental College, and received her graduate education in Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California in 1980. Kim trained directly with Dr. A. Jean Ayres in sensory integrative therapy, and is certified in the Southern California Sensory Integration Tests and the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests. She also is trained in the Therapeutic Listening Program and Handwriting Without Tears. Kim has worked throughout her career in pediatric private practices in southern California, and relocated to the Canton area 4 years ago. She specializes in working with children with sensory processing disorders, developmental delay, attention deficits, and autism. She has 2 grown children and loves gardening, reading, and sewing.

Kathy Brunner M. Ed. CCC-SLP
Kathy earned her degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has worked as a speech/language therapist in a school system and as a developmental specialist in a neonatal intensive care unit and developmental follow-up program in a metropolitan hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She owned a private practice in Pittsburgh for over twenty years, specializing in treating high risk children with communication disorders and those with autism and autism spectrum disorders. Ms. Brunner relocated to Georgia in July of 2004 and splits her time working in an outpatient pediatric practice and doing home treatment for infants and toddlers. Ms. Brunner has given workshops across the country training individuals to use Melodic/Multi-Phonemic Intervention which she has developed and used with success for many non-verbal and low verbal individuals.

Kathy specializes in treating individuals with developmental delay including autism, PDD, genetic disorders, auditory processing, and apraxia, and individuals with a range of oral motor and feeding disorders.

She is a member of the ASHA, and has presented at Autism One conferences, as well as the Georgia Speech, Language and Hearing Association conferences.