Dr. Lydia Reid

• Certified speech-language pathologist (CCC-SLP.D) who has worked with Pediatrics since 1994.  Her academic background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences and Psychology, and her Master’s and Doctorate Degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She has also received special traning in Aquatic Therapy, Hippo Therapy, NeuroDevelopmental Treatment for infants and young children with neuromusculature dysfunction, and prompt for children who suffer from apraxia. In addition, she specializes in identifying individuals who may benefit from genetic services.  

• Dr. Reid has provided pediatric diagnostic and intervention services in various settings including rehabilitation centers, private practice settings, home-based settings, and special and public school settings.  Prior to opening her own private practice she clinically supervised speech and language pathology students in private settings and at Florida International University in South Florida as an adjunct professor. She has also conducted several in-service treatment labs on rib cage mobility and vocal production.  

• Dr. Reid has published research studies related to Neuro-Developmental Treatment on Airflow and Sustained Phonation in Children with Athetoid Cerebral Palsy, Language Comprehension Performance of African-American Children, and she has Developed a tool that aid Speech Language Pathologist in distinguishing phonological differences versus phonological disorder in children who speak African-American English.   

• She has extensive clinical experience in addressing a variety of communication impairments including disorders of early language development, disorders of speech sound production/apraxia, oral motor/feeding difficulties, fluency, voice, cleft palate, multiple disabilities (Cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Angelman syndrome), and global developmental delays. 
  

Mayvelis Muñoz Diaz, M.S., CCC-SLP

Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist

• Mayvelis is a Certified Speech-Language Pathologist fluent in Spanish and English. She graduated from Florida International University with a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology in 2007. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a minor in Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in 2003.

• For the past three years, Mayvelis has been involved in providing screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic intervention services to patients with speech and language disorders in a variety of locations, including private and public schools, nursing homes, home-based settings, and private practice settings. She has worked with patients with the following disorders: articulation/ phonology, apraxia, expressive/receptive language, voice, fluency, oral motor, feeding and swallowing, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, and autism, across all age groups.

Dawn England

• Graduated from Nova Southeastern University in 2008 with a Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology

• Experience: Broward County Public Schools and Adult Rehab.

• Experience working with Language Disorders, Articulation Disorder, hearing impairments, Austism, Stroke

• Worked with children from 2 years to16
  

• Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology

• Working with Perfect Speech, Inc. for one year

• Experience:  Miami Dade County Public Schools, Adult Rehab in a hospital setting, private practice setting

• Experience working with Language Disorders, Articulation Disorders, Autism, Down Syndrome, Aspergers, MR, Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke

• Worked with children from 2 years to adults of 90+ years

Erin Jackson,OT 

• Graduated from University of Hartford in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in occupational therapy.

• Erin has worked in many pediatric settings such as schools, clinics, and on the farm providing hippotherapy services!

• Erin is from Massachusetts and decided to move to Florida in October of 2005 in search of sunshine!

• In the future Erin would like to live on lots of land in the mountains and start a hippotherapy practice and/or a summer camp for children with special needs.

Erika Abril-Garcia,PT