Are you looking for speech and language services for your public school, private school, charter school, or a head start program?

 

I can help your students excel as confident communicators. I have over 13 years of experience successfully assisting special education administrators and teachers to meet the needs of their students who have learning and developmental difficulties in pre-school, elementary, middle school, and high school.

 

I can help with comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and treatment programs for speech disorders including:

• Language delays and learning disabilities

• Cognitive difficulties

• Stuttering

• Reading disabilities

• Social communication

• Social functioning

• Hearing screenings

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I serve students who have difficulties with

• Understanding classroom instruction

• Participating in classroom instruction

• Developing and maintaining relationships

• Slow development of vocabulary, concepts or grammar

• Inability to use different communication styles for different situations

• Poor building blocks of understanding/expressing ideas, social development, learning, reading, and writing

• Speech that is too high, low, or monotonous in pitch, interrupted by breaks, too loud or too soft, harsh, hoarse, breathy, or nasal

• Interruptions in flow or rhythm, can include hesitations, repetitions, or prolongations, can affect sounds, syllables, words, or phrases

• Saying one sound for another (wabbit for rabbit), omitting a sound in a word (i-cream for ice cream), distorting a sound (thee for see)

• Difficulty in sucking, chewing, triggering a swallow, moving food into the stomach

• Interfere with eating lunch and snacks, reduce opportunities that build friendships, can affect social and communication skills, can impact learning

 

My roles in the school includes:​

• Prevention of communication disorders

• Identification of students at risk for later problems

• Assessment of students’ communication skills

• Evaluation of the results of comprehensive assessments

• Development and implementation of IEPs

• Documentation of outcomes

• Collaboration with teachers and other professionals

• Advocacy for teaching practices

• Participation in research projects

• Participation in school-wide curriculum and literacy teams

• Training paraprofessionals to implement and support students with speech needs

 

Depending on what works best for your students’ needs, I can provide individual or small group speech therapy. I am also trained in providing telepractice services.

 

I can meet your school needs for:

• Year-round student services

• After school children’s programs

• Summer Enrichment Programs

• Vacation coverage

• Maternity leave coverage

• Illness or other temporary leave

• IEPs

 

I also offer bilingual speech services in Spanish and Russian languages for student and offer parent-teacher consultations.

I provide services to the Greater Metropolitan Boston area, as well as NYC area.

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