Rochester Feeding & Swallowing Therapy, SLP PLLC

Speech Pathology Was My Calling As odd as it might sound, I have known that I wanted to be a Speech Pathologist since I was in the 6th grade. My youngest cousin was receiving speech therapy at a local agency and I would go with my aunt to observe her therapy session. I found that the ability to help someone so profoundly and make a direct impact on their life, spoke to me. I chose to pursue my professional path at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Syracuse University, and realized that my love of speech pathology fell more on the medical side of the profession. Over the course of my career, my clinical passion has focused on working with children and adults who have feeding and swallowing deficits (i.e.,dysphagia) and designing patient-specific, evidence-based intervention programs for them. I was the Speech Pathology supervisor at Rochester Regional Health - Unity Hospital in Rochester, New York for 22 years. I was known as a dedicated and effective leader who successfully grew the department by critically analyzing where the gaps are in our