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.
Amanda
Dykstra, M.S.: A speech and language pathologist clinical fellow,
Miss Dykstra has two years of clinical experience with children and adults
in various settings. She received her undergraduate degree from California
State University in Fullerton, California in Communication Disorders and
Sciences; and, her M.S. degree from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield,
Connecticut in Speech-Language Pathology. Miss Dykstra completed externship
in pediatrics at Speech Academy, a private practice, in Easton, Connecticut;
and, at Head O'Meadow Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. While
attending her undergraduate program, she worked as an ABA therapist at
Creative Behavioral Interventions in Irvine, California. She volunteered at
Jump and Schout Therapy, a private practice in Brea, California. Her adult
and medical externship was completed at New London Rehabilitation Center in
Waterford, Connecticut, and Ludlowe Center for Health and Rehabilitation in
Fairfield, Connecticut. She is experienced in treating children with
disorders in articulation, apraxia, stuttering, receptive and expressive
language delay, language based learning disabilities. She worked with ASD
children on social communication skills. With adults, she has experience in
aphasia, dysphagia, head injury and dementia.
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.
Samira
Hoveyda, M.S.P., CCC:
A certified and licensed speech and language pathologist, Miss Hoveyda
has four and half years of clinical experience with children and adults in
various settings. She received her graduate degree in speech-language
pathology and her undergraduate degree in psychology from University of
South Carolina. She worked at Capital Therapy Group, a private practice in
Austin Texas. She interned at Kershaw County Head Start, and Dutch Fork
Elementary School in South Carolina. She also interned at Health South
Rehabilitation Center. Miss Hoveyda is experienced in treating toddlers
with feeding disorders and developmental speech and language delay. With
preschool children, she is experienced with articulation, phonology, apraxia,
stuttering, language disorders, and feeding disorders. She worked with
school age children in articulation, stuttering, language based learning
disabilities, word retrieval deficits, reading comprehension and writing.
She also worked with children with neurological impairment and with children
on the Autism spectrum. With adults, she has experience in voice,
stuttering, aphasia, dysphagia, head injury, dementia and accent
modification.
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.
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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