Joshua M.S. CCC-SLP, TSSLD is a New York State and Massachusetts State certified Speech-Language Pathologist with a Certificate of Clinical Competency (CCC) from the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). He holds a New York State Certificate for Teaching Students with Speech-Language Disabilities (TSSLD). Joshua obtained a Master’s of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Boston University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Spanish from Beloit College in Wisconsin. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, Joshua spent three years teaching English in Spain, which eventually led him to the field of Speech-Language Pathology. Joshua has experience in both general education and substantially separate academic settings as a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist in Boston, MA and New York City. He currently works for the New York City Department of Education servicing preschool and elementary students with communication disabilities. Joshua has provided therapeutic services for children and teenagers exhibiting speech sound disorders, learning disabilities, pragmatic language disorders, receptive/expressive language disorders. Joshua additionally worked in a specialty Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Strand program, and has experience with high and low-tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices such as TouchChat and Tobii Dynavox. Joshua additionally has experience providing in-home Early Intervention (EI) services to emerging communicators from birth to age three. He works to include families and specialist team members into children’s therapy. As a bilingual clinician, Joshua is trained in the diagnosis and identification of language difference versus disorder, and strives to include cultural and multi-linguistic competence in his practice. Joshua has taken extended training on narrative language interventions such as Story Grammar Marker, gestalt language processing, considerations for bilingual AAC users, stuttering desensitization therapy, interventions for struggling readers, among others. When not doing therapy, Joshua is a curious traveler, an avid hiker, and a ceramic artist who enjoys time on the potter’s wheel.