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Mrs. Spelman's office provides individualized reading remediation and reading evaluations, and speech and language therapy. Mrs. Spelman is a certified WILSON Reading instructor. The WILSON program is a systematic and explicit method of reading instruction using multi-sensory strategies, often used for children with dyslexia. Mrs. Spelman has over 15 years of experience as a speech/language pathologist and as a teacher of students with learning disabilities.
Individual 1:1 sessions are provided for each student. Comprehensive evaluations are offered in the areas of speech & language skills, which may include articulation/phonology, receptive and expressive language, listening/auditory processing, and pragmatic/social skill development. Comprehensive academic evaluations are also offered in the areas of reading and writing skills. An assessment of reading skills includes evaluation in all five areas of reading: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
Mrs. Spelman is a speech/language pathologist and reading remediation teacher. She is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds the national Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP). She is also licensed by the state of Florida's Department of Health to practice speech/language pathology (License # SA 6021). Mrs. Spelman holds teaching certification from the state of Florida in the areas of Speech/Language Impairment, Reading, Exceptional Student Education, PreKindergarten-Primary Instruction and English to Speakers of Other Languages. Mrs. Spelman is also a board member of the International Dyslexia Association- Florida Branch.
Mrs. Spelman has provided speech/language therapy and reading/writing remediation for the past fifteen years. Five of those years were spent providing services within self-contained language classrooms, teaching all academics and incorporating speech/language therapy into lessons. Mrs. Spelman opened her private practice in 2005, providing individualized instruction to students with dyslexia, learning disabilities, auditory processing deficits, language expression deficits, and articulation delays.
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