Biographical Information
Cross cultural experience includes:
Therapeutic experience in assessment and treatment of:
Current caseload is comprised of preschool and school-aged children with any of the above speech, language and communication difficulties.
Education
· Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY
Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology, May 1985
Honors: Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education
· University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bachelor of Science honors in Logopaedics; Majors: Speech Language Pathology, Audiology, Psychology, December 1978
Professional Licenses and Affiliations
Cross cultural experience includes:
- General private practice as well as contract with Westchester County DOH, preschool programs, NY - 20 years
- Diagnostics and co-teaching within the special needs Alcott nursery school program, NY - 12 years
- Diagnostic and treatment multidisciplinary facility for 0-5 year olds, Haifa, Israel - 2 years
- Speech and language consultant at school for the deaf, Transkei, South Africa - 1 year
Therapeutic experience in assessment and treatment of:
- Articulation and phonological delays and disorders (speech sounds)
- Dyspraxia of speech (difficulty combining speech sounds to form words)
- Speech of children with cleft palate (specific articulation deficits and hypernasality)
- Fluency disturbances which include stuttering (getting stuck on speech sounds and words)
- Cluttering (poor intelligibility due to atypical rate of speech, lack of awareness)
- Childhood language deficits (delayed or atypical development of verbal language - comprehension and expression)
- Pragmatic language disorders (difficulty using language to converse and interact)
- Selective mutism (avoidance of communication in specific contexts)
Current caseload is comprised of preschool and school-aged children with any of the above speech, language and communication difficulties.
Education
· Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY
Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology, May 1985
Honors: Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education
· University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bachelor of Science honors in Logopaedics; Majors: Speech Language Pathology, Audiology, Psychology, December 1978
Professional Licenses and Affiliations
- Speech-Language Pathologist, New York State
- Teacher Certification for Speech and Hearing Handicapped, New York State
- Certificate of Clinical Competence, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Member American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
