Darla Freeman is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and received her Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ohio State University.

While in the masters program, she developed a special interest in voice disorders and their management, and she was selected for a clinical internship in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Ohio State University. During the internship, she gained valuable experience and advanced training in the evaluation, diagnosis and management of a wide variety of laryngeal disorders in a multidisciplinary center.