Dorothy Callahan, MS CCC-SLP, TSSLD is a licensed speech language pathologist and holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She is certified as a Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities. Dorothy also is trained in PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Motor Muscular Phonetic Targets) and has pursued continuing education in Social Thinking by Michelle Garcia Winner. She obtained a M.S. Degree in Communication Disorders from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 1999 and a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University. Currently Dorothy works in private practice as well as at a school serving pre-k and kindergarten students, many on the Autism Spectrum. She has specific interest in augmentative and alternative communication and strategies for behavior management. She completed her clinical fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her experience includes working with children and adolescents in rehabilitation, early intervention, and both elementary and middle schools (including general education, d75, public, private and charter schools). She serves as a graduate student supervisor for master’s degree candidates and frequently provides professional development trainings to educators. She enjoys building relationships with students and incorporating a child’s ideas and interests into therapy as well as supporting parents and families through collaboration and frequent, clear communication of progress and the child’s needs. She is a believer in being fully present, making therapy fun, and having a can-do attitude.

Dorothy resides in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her daughter and her rescue dog Ollie. She is a member of the Park Slope Food Coop and cohosts a monthly discussion group of fictional short stories from the New Yorker. She enjoys being a student and in recent years has taken courses for both personal and professional development, including both an Introduction to Music Therapy at NYU and Beginners Catalan at the University of Barcelona. In her spare time she enjoys being a volleyball mom, reading, biking, yoga, writing, knitting, meditation, storytelling, cooking, gardening, enjoying the outdoors, and exploring self-expression and the ways in which people connect and create community.

dorothy@dorothycallahanspeech.com

610.639.8676