Meet the owners of WPT

Danielle

Danielle was born and raised in New York, where she attended State University of New York at Cortland to receive her BS in Communication Disorders. She then moved to North Carolina to complete her Master’s degree in Communication Disorders at North Carolina Central University.

Danielle has worked with diverse populations and disorders, including language disorders, fluency, articulation disorders, apraxia, auditory processing disorder, sensory feeding, and Autism, within a variety of  settings, including clinics, schools, daycares, skilled nursing facilities and clients’ homes. Having a strong desire to impact children within all ranges of communication abilities, Danielle’s interests within this vast field pertain to providing children and their families support to establish successful communication while fulfilling their optimum potential. Having a family member with a communication disorder of Aphasia, she understands the need and importance of collaboration from all members of a team to achieve the best possible outcome. She feels that, together as a team of  the child, family, speech-language pathologist, and any other additional professionals, they can create treatment plans and strategies to generalize throughout the child’s daily life and social interactions. Danielle particularly enjoys providing therapy and researching social communication and pragmatic disorders which ties to her recent certification as a Autism Clinical Specialist. She hopes to instill strength and confidence within all of the children she serves.

Danielle became a new mom to a beautiful baby boy  in March of 2024. When Danielle is not working as an SLP, she is home soaking in her baby snuggles and enjoying life as a family of 3. She also enjoys yoga, hiking and cheering on the Carolina Hurricanes.

Lanae

Lanae is an experienced speech-language pathologist with a passion for working with young children. She received a Bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University and a Master’s degree from Texas A&M University, Kingsville.

Lanae has experience working with diverse populations and disorders including: articulation disorders; language disorders; autism spectrum disorders; genetic syndromes; cerebral palsy; and the deaf/hard of hearing population. She has worked within a variety of settings including NCCU’s graduate clinic, schools, daycares, clients’ homes and skilled nursing facilities. Lanae prides herself on building a strong rapport with her clients and clients’ families as she believes successful communication is a team effort. Her unique approach to therapy focuses on the whole family. By demonstrating simple ways to provide communication opportunities, she builds lifelong skills that enable her clients to express their wants and needs.

Lanae is PROMPT level 1 trained, Beckman Oral Motor trained, and LAMP trained and enjoys working with clients in need of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices.

Lanae’s love and dedication to this field does not stop at therapy alone. Lanae has been a clinical supervisor of graduate students and new graduates from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) on and off campus for the past several years as she enjoys teaching and sharing her experiences with future speech-language pathologists. She then dedicated her craft and expertise, alongside her business partner, to create Wright Pediatric Therapy in Raleigh, to spread that love and passion throughout the Triangle area.

In her free time, Lanae enjoys living an active and healthy lifestyle, spending time with her dog Teegan, going to concerts, and traveling to the mountains.