Barbara Roca Email & Phone Number

Miami, Fl, Us

9830 Sw 77 Ave Suite 110 Miami Fl 33156

1. Clinical supervision.2. Assessment/treatment of children with speech production disorders, specific language impairments, language based learning disabilities, and executive dysfunction.3. Research and development.4. Professional development and educational research.5. Comprehensive assessments collaborated with other disciplines (e.g., psychology, neurology, etc.) to create a comprehensive learning profile that facilitates an understanding of a child's strengths and weaknesses in the areas of social-emotional learning, cognition, speech, language, reading, and writing. 6. Interdisciplinary collaboration with schools and families to create strength-based individualized clinical curriculums that endeavor to treat the whole child (e.g., socio-emotional development, executive functions, speech, language, and literacy).

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Autism Spectrum Assessment Clinic, Lead Speech and Language Pathologist. Responsible for conducting speech and language assessments as part of a multi-disciplinary team for children with developmental disabilities.

Instructor for the course “Survey of Normal/Abnormal Language and Speech Development”, a required course for 4th year Special Education majors. Course objectives included developing the understanding of typical and atypical speech and language development, developing the understanding of how speech and language challenges impact academic learning, developing teacher proficiency in identifying and referring students with speech, language and communication challenges, and developing the classroom skills necessary to support children with underlying speech, language and communication challenges in the classroom.

Responsible for assessing and treating children with speech, language, and communication disorders.

Responsible for assessing and treating children and adolescents admitted with varying etiologies such as closed head injuries, near drowning, seizures, and developmental disorders. Worked with children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation in-patient team as well as outpatients referred for cognitive-communication disorders, motor speech disorders, feeding and swallowing disorders and speech-langauge delays/disorders.

Hired as a consultant by the rehabilitation department to create policies and procedures within the scope of speech and language pathology, specifically for the assessment and intervention of the dysphagia population. Conducted pre and post treatment videofluoroscopic swallow studies through the radiology department, trained in fiberoptic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), and assessed and treated inpatient and outpatient adults admitted with varying etiologies. Presenter at the 2000 Cuban Medical Association Annual Conference on the use of Modified Barium Swallow (MBS) studies to diagnose and treat the dysphagia population.

Speech and Language pathologist intern responsible for assessing and treating inpatient and outpatient adolescents and adults admitted with varying etiologies such as traumatic brain injury, CVA, parkinson's disease, Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia,and dysphagia.

Speech and language pathologist intern at the Mailman Center for Child Development. Participated in speech-language assessments of children presenting with developmental disabilities as part of a multidisciplinary process through the interdisciplinary developmental evaluation team. Participated in assessment and treatment of children, from a variety of etiological backgrounds, referred to the speech-language pathology department of the Mailman Center for Child Development.

Provided speech and language treatment to children with a wide array of disabilities. Attended several Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT) courses and worked extensively with infants and children diagnosed with down's syndrome, cerebral palsy and feeding disorders.

Doctor Of Education (Ed.D.)

Dissertation Title: The intersection between emotions and learning during literacy interventions.

Master'S Degree, (M.S.) Speech And Language Pathology

Bachelor'S Degree, (B.A.) Psychology