Dr. Dawn Moore, aka The Tongue Dr., is the founder of Expressions Speech,
Language, & Myofunctional Center in Burlington, North Carolina. She is also the
owner of Expressions Seminars, which provides practical, use-the-next-day
continuing education courses in-person, live online and on-demand for
speech-language pathology.

Dr. Moore is a Doctoral level, Board Certified and Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist holding
the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language
Hearing Association (ASHA). Additionally, she is a Certified Orofacial Myologist®
through the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM). She has 25
years of experience in Speech-Language Pathology, earning her clinical doctorate
in 2018. For 15 years, she practiced in the schools of North Carolina as both a
clinician and Lead SLP, with recognition as a Teacher of Excellence, and expanded
into pediatric private practice in 2010.

Her main interests include orofacial myology and speech sound disorders
(articulation, phonological delay, and apraxia). She uses her own program, Let’s
Hear It For /R/! which was the subject of her doctoral clinical study, to correct the
difficult /r/ sound. For phonology, she uses and teaches others how to use
Barbara Hodson’s Cycles for Phonology due to the success she continues to have
with the program.

Dr. Moore became a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®) after struggling to find
help for her own daughter with a severe tongue thrust. Through this training and
practice, she serves patients in-person in North Carolina and across four
additional states via telehealth. She regularly presents to SLPs and dental
professionals, including students the UNC Chapel Hill Dental School, about the
impact myofunctional disorders have on speech, feeding, chewing, breathing, and
dentition.

Dr. Moore sees patients in her office in Burlington and ONLINE across the US.