Bio

Annamaria's experience includes working in different settings such as private practice, outpatient clinics, educational settings for nonpublic schools, districts, and county programs. Programs include preschool assessment, behavioral and mental health programs, including Autism Spectrum.

Annamaria has extensive experience working with children with Autism Spectrum. She works 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. 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. She has extensive training in Social Thinking (Michelle  Garcia Winners), CERTS, and cognitive-behavioral approaches.

She has advanced auditory processing training, apraxia (PROMPT), oral motor speech disorders (TALK TOOLS), language development, social pragmatic language, and articulation. As a speech-language pathologist, Annamaria believes in collaborating with parents and families to develop an individualized treatment plan, strategies. She 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 helps your child improve his/her speech, receptive and expressive language, auditory comprehension/processing skills, or social skills. In addition, creative apps and integrated strategies, and behavioral  reinforcements and incentives ensure a positive learning experience!

Expressive Speech Therapy provides the following service models:

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