Annamaria Manuguerra, SLP

Annamaria has serviced the area of Speech-Language Pathology in Santa Clara County and Monterey County since 2001. With 20 years of experience with children, she has spent many of those years working with preschool, school-age children, and adolescents.  Her experience includes working in private practice, outpatient clinics, and educational settings for nonpublic schools, districts, and county programs. She is participating in preschool assessment and behavioral and mental health programs, including Autism Spectrum.

Annamaria has extensive experience working with children with Autism Spectrum, working with counselors, behaviorists, speech, and occupational therapists as part of an integrated rehabilitation program. She enjoys working with families and professionals to motivate and engage the most reluctant learners. She has extensive training in Social Thinking (Michelle Garcia Winners), CERTS, and cognitive-behavioral approaches.

They also work with Apraxia (PROMPT), oral motor speech disorders (TALK TOOLS), and other methods where traditional methods may not have worked. Annamaria's passion is working with social communication and language skills for groups of school-age to adolescents. Adolescent life skills and social thinking groups are prevalent.

As a therapist, Annamaria believes in collaborating with parents and families to develop an individualized treatment plan, strategies, and approaches to ensure that each child's unique communication needs are met.

Parent education and involvement in therapy are critical to successful treatment. Providing an extensive 'bag of tricks' filled with creative strategies and engaging methods help your child improve his/her speech, receptive and expressive language, auditory comprehension/processing skill, or social skills.

Using creative apps and integrated strategies along with behavioral reinforcements and incentives ensures a positive experience for learning!

Expressive Speech Therapy provides the following service models:

In-home sessions, teletherapy sessions, parent education, consulting for IEP's (Individual Education Plan and IFSP (Individual Family Service Plan), and school contracts.