Meet Your Speech Therapist

A blonde woman with eyeglasses dressed in a bright pink blazer, cream-colored satin pants, beige heels, and a patterned gray scarf stands inside a house standing in front of a wooden door and frosted glass window, holding a smartphone.

Welcome!

I’m Laura.

Laura completed professional training at William Paterson University in 2015, to help the community and her own son with speech therapy. She worked with students in public schools from pre-school through age 21+, observed and assessed students, and served on a Child Study Team as a speech therapist. She also provides speech therapy in Early Intervention with children under age 3.

Laura knows what parents go through, and what they fear,
and does not judge.

Her experience goes back to 2000, when her son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Laura immersed herself in autism, apraxia, speech therapy, FloorTime/DIR, sensory integration, special education, oral motor therapy, prompting speech sounds, signing words and Total Communication, tactile cueing (Prompt), occupational therapy, ABA (in several formats), nutrition and feeding, home programming, social skills development, and AAC. As parent of a non-speaking child, Laura never gave up. Whatever a speech therapist might do, she tried even before she had training.

She went to grad school for speech therapy after her son finally got his first high tech voice output AAC device. It was 10 years after she started telling speech therapists he should have one. Before his evaluation this time, she prepared him to show the speech therapist he could spell words. (His school said he couldn’t tell A from B! The iPad hadn’t been invented yet.) She rented, programmed, and implemented his speech device with him, while the District and school speech therapist tried to catch up.
Through the NJ state professional organization, she has served on the NJ ABA NJSHA Collaborative Practice Committee. She has received training and participated in many formats of ABA through in-home services and her son’s schools.
(Fun fact. The tools we used the most in our family life at home were FloorTime and Sensory Integration because they’re fun!)