About Us

Dr. Kristen Bish is a board-certified Doctor of Audiology.  She received her Masters degree in Audiology in 1998 from the University of Buffalo.  After practicing for five years, she continued her education and received her AuD. degree in 2005.  She had been practicing in a small, private practice in Mount Pleasant for four years prior to opening Palmetto Audiology & Speech Therapy in 2006.  Prior to her work in Mount Pleasant, she practiced in a large Otolaryngology office in North Charleston and at Children’s Hospital in Buffalo, NY.  Outside the office, Dr. Bish enjoys spending time with her husband, Darin and two children, Brianna (11) and Connor (6).

Betsy is a licensed and certified Speech-Language Pathologist. She has worked in the public schools, Head Start centers, private practice, and hospital settings, with an emphasis on rehabilitation following stroke and head injury.

Betsy received her B.A. in Speech Correction from Columbia College and her Masters in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of South Carolina. She is a member of The American Speech-Language Hearing Association, South Carolina Speech and Hearing Association, and is certified in Vital-Stimulation.

She is the proud mother of two children, enjoys working with all age-groups, and has a special interest in adult swallowing disorders.

  Jennifer Kimery has been a speech and language pathologist for many years, both as a student and a professional. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Audiology and Speech Sciences at Purdue University in August, 1998, and soon relocated to Denver, CO due to her husband’s career opportunities. While in Denver, Jennifer worked for a non-profit organization as a speech-language aid for a year before the winds of change yet again required relocation and led her to the Medical University of South Carolina. Jennifer received her Master of Science in Rehabilitation-Communication Science and Disorders in May, 2003.
 
            The three year program at MUSC offered many opportunities to practice speech and language pathology under close supervision while in a real clinical setting. Jennifer has worked with such populations as laryngectomee patients, who required measuring and fitting of Blom-Singer Tracheoesophageal Prostheses. She also participated in therapeutic voice counseling sessions involving Visi-Pitch equipment, and performing and interpreting modified barium swallow studies.  In addition, Jennifer also worked with acute care patients and outpatients in hospitals and transitional care units. In these settings, patients were evaluated and treated for speech and language disorders, oral-motor deficits, dysphagia, apraxia of speech, traumatic brain injury and cerebral vascular accident.
 
            Jennifer’s professional experiences have taken her in a different direction. She performed her 9-month clinical fellowship and one year as a fully independent speech and language pathologist in the public school setting in the Orange County and Los Angeles areas of Southern California. In 2007 Jennifer and her husband welcomed the birth of their son and Jennifer took time off to be with him during infancy. Wanting to get away from the fast paced life of Los Angeles, Jennifer and her husband once again returned to Charleston where Jennifer began practicing as a speech and language pathologist in October, 2009.
 
Jennifer specializes in articulation disorders and language disorders, especially in children aged 2-10.

Jason is a South Carolina licensed Hearing Aid Practitioner.  His father and brother-in-law are both hearing specialists in his home state of Virginia and has been around hearing aids since the early 1990s.  He has been fitting hearing instruments in Charleston since 2006 and moved over to Palmetto Audiology and Speech therapy in early 2009.   Dr. Bish and Jason's unique relationship allows Dr. Bish to administer the most up to date testing procedures while Jason keeps a keen eye on the ever changing technology and fitting practices of the hearing world.  Prior to his work in Charleston, he worked for Trek Bicycle Corporation in Nashville, TN.  Outside the office, Jason enjoys spending time with his fiance Ann Taylor and is an avid golfer and surfer.