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Specialized Tutoring for Speech, Language, and Swallowing
Tj C.

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I love empowering people to help themselves through a coach/tutoring model. As an ASHA-certified speech language pathologist, I have over 19 years of experience across medical and school settings. Please note that any reference to certification in my profile is strictly reflecting my American Speech Language and Hearing Association Certification. SLPs are not* teachers. We assess, diagnose, and treat communication and swallowing disorders. We are certified as SLPs by our governing body, ASHA....

I love empowering people to help themselves through a coach/tutoring model. As an ASHA-certified speech language pathologist, I have over 19 years of experience across medical and school settings. Please note that any reference to certification in my profile is strictly reflecting my American Speech Language and Hearing Association Certification. SLPs are not* teachers. We assess, diagnose, and treat communication and swallowing disorders. We are certified as SLPs by our governing body, ASHA. Some SLPs that work in school settings may obtain an additional educational certification per state regulations.

Regarding educational background, two of my collegiate degrees are in the areas of Communication Sciences and Disorders / Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. I have over 5,000 hours of personal 1:1 contact instructing clients (ranging from infants/toddlers and school-aged kids to adults and seniors; ages 1.5 to 106) with varied communication disorders such as articulation and phonological disorders, language delays, cognitive-linguistic impairment, hardness of hearing, English as a second language, swallowing disorders, and traumatic brain injury.

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Education

Xavier University of LA
Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
MSU
Masters
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Accent Reduction

Accent Reduction

As an SLP that has also worked as a voiceover actress, with a Master's in Speech Language Pathology and Nationally Certified by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association, I provide personalized services to help individuals adjust their enunciation, pronunciation, stress patterns, pace, and speech patterns to align more closely with their target dialects, including for corporate environments that often require standardized American English. I use exercises in intonation, connected speech stress, rate, and phrasing, and enunciating word endings to mitigate reduced comprehensibility of speech.
ADHD

ADHD

I have 3 years experience with students having been given the ADD/ADHD "diagnosis" ranging in ages 5 through 14. We practiced enhancing sustained, focused, and divided attention and reviewed nutrition related to brain function and compatibility of certain foods with better focus.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

I have used music, parallel play, colors, and various textures to providing tactile/sensory stimulation and language integration therapeutic services to toddlers and kids diagnosed with autism to enhance social interaction and functional language participation.
Bible Studies

Bible Studies

I am ordained and have ongoing 1:1 sessions discussing the Old and New Testaments, the fundamentals of salvation, and revelation of the Word of God.
Career Development

Career Development

I have been a mentor and have conducted to resume editing workshops, time management practice, and transition exercises to selecting an individual based career.
College Counseling

College Counseling

I counsel students in utilizing their positive interests to shape their resume, guide them on decision making, and I assist students with time management-utilizing down time to score big with the syllabus.
Elementary Math

Elementary Math

All aspects of elementary math covered including study skills for word problems.
Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning

I've worked as an ASHA Certified Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) for grades K-6 and also homeschool. I've conducted speech therapy sessions specific to executive functioning for school-aged children who had difficulty with working memory, thought organization, planning, execution of communication and/or academic-related tasks, establishing routines, managing transitions, as well as mitigating communication breakdowns from underlying attention deficits.
General Music

General Music

I teach and have taught from ages 3 to adult basic recognition of notes for both treble and bass clef, basic music periods, piano, Fundamentals of Music Theory, performance, theory, technique, formal analysis, sight-singing, and sight-reading
Hard of Hearing

Hard of Hearing

I have prior experience working with clients and patients who were either with hardness of hearing or part of the Deaf community. I had the honor of learning ~200 signs to supplement my oral communication. I have worked at a preschool for the Deaf, with a private clinic of preschoolers with Cochlear Implants, and I had an audiology practicum during my college years. I would bring those experiences from my therapeutic and rehabilitative service background into my private tutoring.
Music History

Music History

In music history I focus on classical music, covering the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods and moving towards contemporary. We cover from Gregorian Chant to Aaron Copland and towards contemporary music I span mildly to include jazz and the beginnings of rock and roll/blues.
Music Theory

Music Theory

Beginning to Advanced Intermediate Music Theory providing the student with the understanding of interpreting music for enhanced performance and progression to basic composition.
Oboe

Oboe

I played the oboe for the New York City Public Band for 3 years. I teach students basic fingering, correct embouchure, and reed maintenance.
Phonics

Phonics

I use a combined strategy of syllable segmentation, phoneme breakdown and interactive games, to enhance students of all ages understanding of how blends and dipthongs work. I utilize a lot of rhyming to assist the students in recognizing similar endings/similar sounds to also enhance spelling recognition.
Piano

Piano

I have played the piano for 13 years and have been trained in classical piano performance for 9 years. I use finger charts, grand staff, and a mixture of Czerny, Bastien, and basic theory/performance books to introduce beginning and intermediate students to the art of playing piano. I emphasize fingering and shoulder involvement so pressure does not reside or strain the wrist resulting in later injury.
Public Speaking

Public Speaking

I teach students of all ages vocal projection, appropriate breathing, overarticulation and exaggeration for better clarity, syllable segmentation, respiratory support, relaxation of facial muscles and control of airflow for improved speaking. I also teach compensatory techniques to reduce shyness and fear of making eye contact with audience during speeches.
Sight Singing

Sight Singing

I utilize the traditional solfege syllables and note reading to enhance the musical ear of the student, and train in being able to "hear" the song by merely looking at the notes and sing before playing; to enhance carryover of accurate time measurement during pieces.
Spanish

Spanish

I tutor in preschool/elementary level/intermediate Spanish conversation, listening and reading comprehension, writing, and Spanish culture (which is not homogeneous).
Special Needs

Special Needs

I work with students who have Asperger's syndrome (to expand social skills and understanding of jokes), cerebral palsy, stuttering, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disability, Learning Language Disability, articulation impairments, and swallowing difficulties/resistance to food.
Speech

Speech

I train students with valuable tools to engage in more comprehensible speech and clear laconic messages, through appropriate phonatory support, articulation, and syllable segmentation.
Study Skills

Study Skills

I teach students time management, analysis of how they study, train in reducing distractions, enhancing divided and sustained attention, and memory vs. learning strategies for better carryover of material.
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Study skills in utilizing the origin of words and compensatory strategies for vocabulary exposure heavily emphasized to assisting with vocabulary acquisition.
Spelling

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