SPEECH & LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN ABOUT US OUR LOCATION A unique and highly regarded graduate teaching The Speech and Hearing Center is located on facility, the Speech and Hearing Center at Lehman two floors in the Speech and Theatre Building College provides state of the art diagnostic and and has individual and group therapy rooms with therapeutic services to individuals in the New York City observation areas for family and undergraduate Metropolitan area and to members of the Lehman student observers, seminar rooms, SMART community who have speech, language, hearing, and/ classrooms, conference rooms or feeding deficits. , and resource The Lehman College rooms. Speech and Language Services are delivered by Speech and graduate-student clinicians under the close supervision Parking is available behind the Speech and of Clinical Educators, who are speech- language Theatre building at no cost to our clients. Hearing Center pathologists or audiologists certified by ASHA (the American Speech-Language Hearing Association) and licensed by New York State. In addition to our Specialty Clinics noted, the SHC offers a variety of groups throughout the academic year including our summer program, "Letters and Literacy: Story Time for Lil Ones," for ages 18 mos -5 years. Additionally, Lehman College is now a National Stuttering Foundation site offering monthly support groups in our facility. In future semesters, we hope to offer Social Pragmatic Group for Adolescents, "Trains and Planes" for Children with Autism and more.
The Center also serves as a research laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty mentors conducting applied clinical research in the areas of auditory perception, brain and language, child Dedicated to meeting the language, neuro-linguistics, speech and voice production, and literacy. communication needs of our community. The VIVE (Visual Instruction to Drive Expression) Resource Center located in our ground floor clinic is available for students and family members to create Speech and Theatre Building, B50 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West visual instruction materials for treatment. Bronx, New York 10468 To schedule an The clinic is equipped with current technology, which evaluation, please call: permits video observation and recording of clinical 718 960 6084 sessions for student development. A wireless audio- Hours of Operation: visual system provides ongoing supervisor-student Monday thru Friday 9 am to 5pm interaction as well as opportunities for self-reflection. EVALUATIONS SPEECH-LANGUAGE CURRENT TREATMENT
The Lehman College Speech and Hearing TREATMENT CLINICS Center provides individualized and The Lehman College Speech and Hearing comprehensive evaluations in speech, language, Center provides services to people of all ages. Early Childhood -- and literacy for both children and adults. Specialties Include: Monolingual & Bilingual: children birth to 3 Our services meet the needs of monolingual and Preschool: bilingual speakers. ▪ Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders children aged 3-5 Evaluations are conducted by a diagnostic team School Age Language/Literacy -- composed of graduate student clinicians as part ▪ Aphasia and TBI Monolingual & Bilingual: children over 5 years of age of their clinical training toward a Master’s Degree ▪ Social Pragmatic Disorder in Speech-Language Pathology. The Clinical through 18 years Educator, a licensed and certified speech- ▪ Fluency Disorder – Adult Neurogenics -- language pathologist, supervises all evaluations. Stuttering/Cluttering Monolingual English/ Monolingual Spanish ▪ Articulation Disorder Individual/Group Treatment and The Lehman College Conversational Group ▪ Parkinson's and Motor Speech Adult Motor Treatment -- Speech and Hearing Center Disorders Parkinson's Disorder is a NO FEE Clinic for both Individual & Group Treatment ▪ Auditory Processing Disorder Diagnostic Evaluations and Speech- SCHEDULE OF TREATMENT Language Pathology Treatment. ▪ Reading and Writing Disorders 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday ▪ Phonological Delay and Disorder
▪ Non-Verbal Learning Disorder SCHEDULE OF EVALUATIONS Mondays thru Thursdays: ▪ Early Language and Learning- 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Based Disorders Fridays: 10 a.m. -1p.m. Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 12 pm ▪ Voice Disorders
▪ Respiratory Disorders Treatment and Evaluations are provided during the fall, spring, and summer semesters. ▪ Accent Management Schedule may differ from what is noted. Visit us on the web at: http://www.lehman.edu/academics/health-human- services-nursing/speech-language-hearing- The Lehman College Speech and Hearing sciences/about-center.php Center is equipped to deliver a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to all Like Us on Facebook: individuals across the lifespan. https://www.facebook.com/LehmanCollegeSHC/
PARENT-FRIENDLY COMMUNICATION, SENSORY, and SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL REFERENCES
Leslie Grubler MA, CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Education and Clinical Services, Lehman College, Bronx, New York 10468 IncludeNYC Livestream, May 16, 2019
• American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) – Milestones in English and Spanish, birth to age 5, https://identifythesigns.org/communicating-with-baby-toolkit/
• Amy Wetherby, 16 Gestures X 16 Months, (PDF) http://www.interveningearly.org/downloads/16x16-handout.pdf • Amy Wetherby, Communicative Temptations (PDF) https://familydaycare.com/wp-content/uploads/btb_pt3_Part-3-Communication-Temptation- Ideas.pdf https://sites.google.com/site/spring2016independentproject/play-based-direct-and-indirect- language-stimulation-approaches/communication-temptations-wetherby-prizant-1989 • Hanen Centre Publications: Learning Language and Loving It, Elaine Weitzman It Takes Two to Talk, Elaine Weitzman More than Words, Fern Sussman • NYC Early Intervention (English and Spanish) – Access and Eligibility https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/early-intervention-information-for-families.page
• NYS Department of Health, https://www.health.ny.gov/community/infants_children/early_intervention/autism/ Report of the Recommendations on Autism and Quick Reference Guides Videos on identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder • NYS Department of Health, Meeting the Social-Emotional Development Needs of Infants and Toddlers, “What do delays in Social Emotional Development Look Like?” pgs. 31-33. https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/4226.pdf#page=35
• Information for Parents on Behavior Regulation in Children http://www.parentingcounts.org/parent-handouts/information-for-parents-self-regulation.pdf
• Child Mind Institute on Self-Regulation https://childmind.org/article/can-help-kids-self-regulation/ • Zero to Three on Behavior Regulation https://www.health.ny.gov/community/infants_children/early_intervention/social- emotional_development/docs/handout_for_parents_birth-12mo.pdf
https://www.health.ny.gov/community/infants_children/early_intervention/social- emotional_development/docs/handout_for_parents_12-24mo.pdf
https://www.health.ny.gov/community/infants_children/early_intervention/social- emotional_development/docs/handout_for_parents_24-36mo • University of South Florida On Behavior Regulation https://challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu/docs/facts_about_sheet.pdf • Ellen Notbohm, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew (PDF) https://handsinautism.iupui.edu/pdf/tenthingschild.pdf
• Oral Motor Grocery List (PDF), http://www.zoneinproducts.com/pdfs/oral-motor-grocery-list1.pdf
• Carol Potter, Jessica Kingsley Publications Enabling Communication in Children with Autism • Carol Stock Kranowitz The Out of Sync Child and The Out of Sync Child Has Fun, TarcherPerigee https://out-of-sync-child.com/ • Carol Gray The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded, Future Horizons https://carolgraysocialstories.com/ • Linda A. Hodgdon Solving Behavior Problems in Autism, Quirk Roberts Publishing Visual Strategies for Improving Communication. Quirk Roberts Publishing • Sue Schwartz and Jane E. Heller Miller The New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs, Woodbine House USEFUL LINKS
Early Childhood Information and Resources http://www.includenyc.org/content/early-childhood
CDC free materials to track your child's development: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/freematerials.html
Referring your child to Early Intervention http://www.includenyc.org/images/uploads/content/ EarlyInterventionSteps.jpg https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/0532.pdf
Referring your child to the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) https://www.includenyc.org/resources/tip-sheet/preschool-special- education http://www.includenyc.org/images/uploads/content/CPSE.jpg THERAPY RESOURCES
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BIO Leslie Grubler, MA, CCC-SLP Leslie Grubler is the Director of Clinical Education and Clinical Services at Lehman College CUNY, a pediatric SLP, and family and child advocate with experience in treatment and administration through 21 years of practice. Formerly, a Master Teacher and mentor to undergraduate and graduate students at Queens College and Molloy College, Leslie's areas of expertise include advocacy for families and their children, speech/language intervention of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Early Intervention, and Clinician and Clinical Educator Development. As an advocate for children and their families, Leslie has coordinated rallies at City Hall in NYC, the NYS Capitol in Albany, met with local, state, and federal representatives and has been invited to speak to the NYS Joint Budget Legislative Committee on Health in the matter of Early Intervention. For the last four years, as the mentor of the NSSLHA Lehman College Chapter, Leslie has enabled the initiation of Proclamations at the local level and Resolutions at the state level recognizing the necessity and importance of Early Intervention, Autism Awareness, and Literacy in the Bronx, New York.
Formerly the ASHA SLP Advisory Councilmember for NYS, Leslie is presently an Advisory Board member of New York Families for Autistic Children (NYFAC), and contributor to two books: • Working with Someone Who Has Autism by Andrew Baumann, James Ball, and Leslie Grubler, 2010 • Everyday Solutions: A Practical Guide for Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Contributor, 2003
Leslie has presented both locally and nationally on a variety of topics. Her recent presentations include: • Optimizing the Optimize-able SLP In Curricular Speech and Language 11/2016 • The Book Study Collaborative: A Primer to Prioritize Student Development and Classroom Pragmatics in the Introductory Classroom 11/2016 • Principles of Informed Intuition in the Therapeutic Relationship: It’s All About the Base 11/2015 • Utilizing Informed Intuition to Communicate Love in the Treatment of Children with Autism 10/2015 • Awakenings in Advocacy – The Necessity to Be the Voice of Patients in Need 11/2014 • Stepping Out of the Box in the Treatment of Children with Autism, Guest/Host– Spotlight Autism, Time Warner Cable, 2005 through 2014
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