We help people reach their full potential in speech, language, learning and communication.
100 Melrose Avenue, Suite 201
Greenwich, CT 06830
(203) 869-8272
5 Mott Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850
(203) 857-0900
About Us
We are a full service center for speech and language pathology. Among the patients we evaluate and treat, 85% are children of all ages and 15% are adults. Our speech and language pathologists are dedicated, dynamic and well-trained professionals. Under the leadership of Josephine Chen, we strive for excellence in patient care, teamwork, and continued improvement of knowledge and skills in our field.
Josephine K. Chen, M.S., CCC: Certified by American Hearing, Speech and Language Association and licensed in Connecticut, New York and California, Ms. Chen has over thirty years of experience in the field. She has received nine continuing education awards from ASHA for more then six hundred hours of postgraduate continuing education study. Prior to establishing the center in 1988, she had worked for twelve years in acute and rehabilitation hospitals in Connecticut and New York. Ms. Chen received her Bachelor of Law degree in Economics abroad from National Chung Hsing University in Taipei; and, her Master of Science degree in Speech and Language Pathology in the U.S. from the University of New Mexico. She has expertise in early language intervention, feeding, oral motor and speech disorders, language-based learning disabilities, stuttering, voice, cleft palate and myofunctional therapy. In addition, Ms. Chen treats adult neurogenic speech and language disorders as well as dysphagia. Ms. Chen was on craniofacial /cleft palate teams for 10 years. She was PROMPT trained at the level one PROMPT training workshop, and certified in LSVT (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment).
Krystal
Collins, M.S., CCC: A certified and licensed speech and language
pathologist, Miss Collins has ten
years of clinical experience with children and adults in various settings.
She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in speech and language
pathology from Loyola College in Maryland. She interned at The Margaret A.
McManus Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland; and,
worked with children with articulation disorders, receptive and expressive
language delay, autism, and fluency. She also worked with adults with
stroke and head injury, treating aphasia, apraxia, dysarthria and cognitive
communication disorders. Additionally, she interned at Genesis Rehab
Services and Charlesmont elementary School in Maryland. She had experience
with Down syndrome, oral motor and feeding difficulties, and language
learning disabilities while working at the Columbia Clinic at Loyola
College.
Madeleine
Foley, M.S., CCC-SLP: A certified and licensed speech and language
pathologist, Miss Foley has over 3 years of clinical experience with
children and adults in various settings. She received her graduate degree in
speech and language pathology from New York Medical College in Valhalla, New
York, and her undergraduate degree in speech, language and hearing science
from University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. She worked as a
full time speech and language pathologist at RegalCare Rehabilitation at
Southport and New Britain, in Connecticut. She interned at Jacobi Medical
Center and North Central Bronx Hospital, in Bronx, New York, Boston
Children’s Health Physicians and Westchester Institute for Human
Development, speech and Hearing Center in Valhalla, New York. Additionally,
she interned at Westchester Exceptional Children’s School in North Salem,
New York. For the pediatric population, she worked with children with needs
in feeding, speech and language delay, articulation and phonology, receptive
and expressive language disorders, learning disabilities, reading
comprehension and writing, and communication pragmatics. She is also
experienced in working with children with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral
palsy, and motor speech disorders. With the adult population, she is
experienced in treating adult patients with voice disorders, and CVA and TBI
patients with dysphagia and aphasia.
Jessica
Griffin, M.S., CCC: A
certified and licensed speech and language pathologist, Miss Griffin has
four years of
clinical experience with children and adults in various settings. She
received her graduate degree in communicative sciences and disorders from
New York University, and her undergraduate degree in communication disorders
from Louisiana State University. She interned at Mount Sinai West Hospital
and Terrence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in Manhattan. She also
interned at City Sounds of New York, a private practice. She worked with
toddlers at Creative Steps Early Care and Education Center; and, with school
age children at Lincoln Elementary School in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. She
is experienced in treating children with disorders in early language
development, receptive and expressive language delay, articulation and
phonology, verbal apraxia, language learning disabilities, word retrieval
and auditory language processing, and cognitive-linguistic impairment. She
also worked with children on the Autism spectrum. With adults, she has
experience in voice, stuttering, aphasia, dysphagia, head injury and
dementia.
Danielle
Livecchi, M.S., CCC: A certified and licensed speech and language
pathologist,
Miss Livecchi has seven years of clinical experience with children and adults
in various settings. She received her graduate degree in speech and language
pathology from New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, and her
undergraduate degree in communication sciences and disorders from The
College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. She came to us from her
internship at Westchester Medical Center. She also interned at New York
Methodist Hospital, Physical Medicine and rehabilitation Center, John A.
Coleman School and Children’s Rehabilitation Center, Hawthorne Country Day
School, and Ichabod Crane Primary School. For the pediatric population, she
worked with children with difficulties in feeding, articulation and
phonology, receptive and expressive language, learning disabilities,
fluency, voice and communication pragmatics. She is also experienced in
early intervention, ASD, and children with Down syndrome. With the adult
population, she is experienced in treating CVA and TBI patients with
dysphagia, aphasia, and apraxia.
Haley
Moser, M.S.: A
speech and language pathologist fellow, Ms. Moser has two years of clinical
experience. She received her Master of Science degree in Speech and
Language Pathology from Northeastern University and her undergraduate degree
in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Emerson College in Boston,
Massachusetts. She worked with children and adults in multiple settings
including a private practice in Beverly, Massachusetts, where she worked
with patients from age 4 years to adults on articulation and phonological
disorders, language, social communication disorders, and voice. She also
interned at William H. Lincoln School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and
treated children from kindergarten through eighth grade focused on
articulation, language disorders, language-based learning disabilities,
feeding and swallowing, hearing impairment students’ needs, and social
thinking. Additionally, she worked with children in literacy and language
learning of preschool children and toddlers, as well as school age children
in higher language skills and reading comprehension. She is experienced with
children with special needs including ASD who require multi-sensory
approach, behavior management, and utilization of augmentative communication
means in therapy.
Devon
Natale, M.S.: A certified
and licensed speech
and language pathologist, Miss Natale has six years of
clinical experience. She received her graduate degree from SUNY Fredonia in
Communication Disorders and Sciences: Speech and Language Pathology; and,
her undergraduate degree from State University at Cortland in Communication
Disorders: Speech and Language Disabilities. Additionally, she attended a
master's program at Mercy College, School of Education, in Teaching
Literacy, Birth to Grade Twelve. Miss Natale worked for two years as a
teacher of students with speech and language disabilities in George Robinson
Preschool in Middletown, New York, in articulation, phonological awareness,
language and pragmatics. She also worked with children with autism. In
her externship, she worked with the early intervention population and
preschool children with speech and language delays and childhood apraxia;
and she also worked with school age children in articulation and language
disorders, fluency, pragmatics and alternative augmentative
communication. For adult population, she worked with patients with
neurological disorders, traumatic brain injury, hearing impairment,
cognitive communication deficits, dementia and dysphagia.
Eliza
Shaker, M.S.: A speech and
language pathologist clinical fellow, Miss Shaker has over two years of
clinical experience with children and adults in various settings. She
received her graduate degree in Communication Disorders from Mercy College
in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and her undergraduate degree in Speech, Language
and Hearing Sciences from University of Connecticut at Storrs, Connecticut.
She worked as a clinical fellow and a teaching assistant at the Brookfield
school system in Brookfield, Connecticut. She also interned at Center
Elementary School and Brookfield High School, facilitated a social
communication group at Westchester ARC in Yonkers, New York. She completed
her medical internship at Putnam Ridge Nursing Facility. With the pediatric
population, she is experienced in treating articulation and phonological
disorders, feeding, developmental language delay, and disorders in school
age language, academic learning, fluency, and communication pragmatics.
With the adult population, she is experienced in treating stroke and head
injury patients with aphasia, dysphagia, and in treating voice and
dysarthria in Parkinson patients.
Gabrielle
Tobacco, M.S., CCC: A
certified and licensed speech and language pathologist, Ms. Tobacco has five
years of clinical experience with children and adults. She came to us from
Westchester Speech and Language Services, PLLC, a private practice in
Scarsdale, New York, where she evaluated and treated pediatric patients with
a variety of speech and language disorders. Additionally, she interned at
the New York City public school system. Ms. Tobacco is experienced in
evaluation and treatment of children with early developmental language and
speech delays, articulation and phonological disorders, language disorders,
and oral narrative difficulties. Ms. Tobacco also interned at A. Holly
Patterson Extended Care Nursing Facility in Uniondale, New York. With adult
patients, she is experienced with aphasia, dysphagia, adults with cognitive
deficits, and traumatic brain injury. She received her Master of Arts
degree from St. John’s University in New York in Communication Sciences and
Disorders. She graduated cum laude from Loyola University in Baltimore,
Maryland, in speech-language pathology/audiology.
Our Values
We are a team of professionals, colleagues, and individuals committed to continued improvement of our clients and ourselves. We work toward this mission by holding fast to our team values:
Commitment to our profession, our team, and our clients by always striving to give the best of what we have—carefully replenishing our resources through daily celebrations of success and excessive bouts of laughter.
Continuous learning from our field, related disciplines, each other, our own experiences, and our clients.
Education of clinical fellows to instill clinical skills, professional ethics, and passion for the profession; appreciation of fellow contributions of the latest research, therapy approaches, and enthusiasm for the profession.
Collaboration to tackle professional challenges and to create and maintain a positive, supportive, and fun work environment.
Communication that is free-flowing, immediate, and honest.
Diversity of culture, experience, ideas, and styles.
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