Hannah Wissner

• Provide community based care to 50+ clients aged birth-22 years in a variety of settings including outpatient services, early intervention services, and local elementary and middle schools.
• Evaluated and diagnosed patients with speech, language, and fluency disorders using standardized assessments and clinical observations. Conducted assessments for specialized populations including Autism, Genetic Disorders, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Bilingual Language, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
• Customized therapeutic interventions for culturally diverse populations, ensuring sensitivity to individual values, beliefs, and communication styles while delivering effective care.
• Enhanced speech and language development in children by designing combination of structured, child-led, play based, and evidence based engaging activities and exercises targeting various skill levels.
• Developed resource materials for parents to continue speech therapy practices at home, enhancing progress.
• Collaborated with teachers and parents to support children's speech and language development in academic and home settings. Integrating cultural and linguistic considerations into therapy plans, addressing diverse needs of patient population.
• Initiated bilingual therapy program to meet needs of non-English speaking patients, improving accessibility to services.

Gemma Services- Martin Luther School and Fairwold School

• Manage caseloads of 40+ students between two Approved Private Schools with students in emotional support, autistic support, and life skills classrooms.
• Address goals related to: language processing disorder, auditory processing disorder, pragmatic difficulty, dyslexia, dysgraphia, articulation/phonological disorder, and intellectual disability and developmental disability.
• Provide treatment and education for low, mid, and high tech Alternative Augmentative Communication Devices (AAC).
• Conduct, score, and plan speech and language screenings, evaluations, re-evaluations and treatment sessions to address needs and goals included in Individualized Education Plans (IEP's).
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary group including occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, RBT, personal care assistants, teachers, behavior specialists, and reading specialist.

ESY Speech-Language Pathologist , Methacton School District

• Provide age appropriate treatment to students ages 5-22 with wide range of goals including expressive language, augmentative and alternative Communication (AAC), receptive language, fluency, pragmatic, life and vocational skills.
• Provide service to homebound student with severe medical needs to improve functional communication.