Erika Baldwin Sasthav, M.S., CCC-SLP, Operations Strategist, received her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a graduate of the 2023 ASHA Leadership Development Program. As the remote Operations Strategist, Erika draws on her extensive leadership and organizational experience, combined with her clinical expertise, to ensure high quality services across disciplines that are in alignment with MST’s mission.
Erika has experience providing speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing treatment to both adults and children in outpatient, acute, school, teletherapy, and community-based settings. She started her career in East Tennessee schools focusing on speech sound disorders, stuttering, and cluttering. Since joining the team at Metro Speech Therapy, Erika discovered a passion for working with her Autistic clients and gestalt language processors. She is now certified as a Natural Language Acquisition Clinician after participating in the Meaningful Speech program. Since discovering the impacts of her own tongue and lip ties, Erika also pursued mentorship in tethered oral tissues, tongue thrust, and myofunctional therapy. In addition, she has taken extensive continuing education coursework in pediatric feeding therapy, AAC, and Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) for Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
Erika is passionate about ensuring that MST is a place for building relationships with clients and families. She mentors staff members to ensure therapy is client-led and play/interest-based, striving to be neurodiversity affirming in practice every day. Outside of work, Erika enjoys rock climbing, bubble tea, and searching for bargains at her favorite resale shops.