Stephanie Lebsack, CCC-SLP

Stephanie "Steff" Lebsack, CCC-SLP is a person who stutters (neurogenic) and has been in academia since 2013. Steff graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 2009 with her MS in Communicative Disorders and from Baylor University with her BA in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2005. Steff became a speech-language pathologist because she has an older brother, Jasper, who is a person who stutters. Steff owns Lebsack Speech Therapy, a private speech therapy practice in Denver, Colorado that focuses on the treatment of people who stutter. Steff is adjunct faculty with the Baylor University's Online Master's in CSD Program and MSU Denver, teaching the graduate-level Fluency Disorders course. Steff is a PhD student at Idaho State University with recent research focus on autonomy and stuttering in children. Additionally, Steff is the girls cross country coach at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado. Steff has guest lectured nationally and internationally and is the Chair of Stamily, an international non-profit organization for people who stutter and their allies. She lives with her husband Kevin, her two beautiful young children Mary and Karter, a pug named Ritchie and a bengal cat named Jubilee. When she isn't playing with her kids or catching up on stuttering current events, she can be found baking, writing and reading.