David Sanchez, CCC-SLP is a speech therapist who specializes in supporting children, teens, and adults who stutter. He has over a decade of experience working with people who stutter, including as a Head Counselor and Programming Director at Camp SAY: A Summer Camp for Young People who Stutter; a stuttering support group leader with the National Stuttering Association and with the University of Washington; and as an elementary Speech Therapist for Mukilteo School District. David graduated from the University of Washington with an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology and earned the Carrell-Miner Clinical Achievement Award upon graduation.

David has stuttered since he was three years old. His experiences with speech therapy were limited to fluency focused treatment, as was common practice at the time. He did not have any peers who stuttered and felt alone in his experience. In college, David discovered Camp SAY, a two-week sleepaway camp for people who stutter guided by the value that every voice matters. Working at Camp SAY was a transformative experience that set David on a new career path to become a speech therapist with this value held front and center.

As a speech therapist, David prioritizes building confidence, effective communication, and self-expression skills with people who stutter. He believes in the power of community to show people that they are not alone in their experiences and that we can work together to empower one another's voices. He follows current research showing the positive benefits of treating the whole person who stutters and not just their disfluencies. Like other leaders in the field of stuttering, he incorporates counseling approaches in his therapy to address cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects of stuttering to reduce its overall impact on one’s life.

Outside of his speech therapy practice, David can be found playing with his two young children, playing basketball if his joints will let him, and telling stories to anybody who requests them. David and his family live in Shoreline, Washington.