Eric Smith Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Monitor, maintain, and enhance the quality of CORA related-services (SLP, OT, PT, Psych, Educational Specialists, Vision, Hearing) offered to the schools, community programs, and clients throughout the agency's service delivery region. Provide professional support and supervision to each of CORA's Department Directors and outside consulting organizations to maintain quality services in all areas of school-related work.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

*Currently provide clinical supervision to 40+ SLPs working in early intervention services, Philadelphia public charter schools, and Philadelphia non-public schools*Assist in recruiting and hiring highly qualified SLPs for agency openings*Provide supervision for clinical fellows completing their Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) at CORA in order to obtain their ASHA certification.*Build and maintain healthy working relationships with partner schools and agencies

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

*Provided early intervention to children, aged 3-5 years, and their families in naturalistic environments including home settings, daycares, Head Starts and community preschools, and center-based programs including The Center for Autism and the Elwyn Seedlings autistic-support program.*Provided speech-language therapy services, including both assessment and treatment, to school-aged children (ages 5-14) in various charter schools, including those with special programs for autistic support and for children with social-emotional/ behavioral disturbances.*Provided supervision for clinical fellows completing their Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) at CORA in order to obtain their ASHA certification.*Served as Clinical Supervisor for Early Intervention Speech-Language Services, providing clinical supervision to six staff SLPs.*Developed and implemented the Literacy Happens at CORA series of family trainings on early literacy.*Participated as a member of CORA’s Strategic Planning Core Team and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion “Spirit of Union” Core Team.

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States

*Educate SLP graduate students as clinicians in professional clinical practice; appropriately assess student learning and performance*Supervise SLP graduate students providing services to pediatric clients in the Speech Language Institute*Served as member of 2020 and 2021 Search Committees for Director of Clinical Education for the university's SLP program

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

*Provided early intervention to children, aged 0-5 years, and their families in naturalistic environments including home settings, daycares, Head Starts and community preschool programs, and center-based programs.*Participated in Multi-Disciplinary Evaluations as well as more dynamic assessments of children, aged 0-5 years, in naturalistic environments.*Participated in development and implementation of Individual Family Service Plans and Individual Education Plans for clients.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

*Provided intervention to children, aged 3-5 years, primarily in reverse mainstream center-based programs but also in daycare and home settings.*Provided clinical supervision for Temple University SLP graduate students.*Participated as a member of Kencrest’s “Evidence Sifters” Committee, targeting improved application of evidence-based practice in daily clinical work.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

*Completed clinical fellowship year, May 2000-2001.*Provided outpatient as well as some inpatient evaluation and treatment of children, aged 0-18 years, with a variety of communication disorders including articulation and phonological disorders, cleft palate, developmental apraxia of speech, expressive and receptive language disorders, fluency disorders, hearing impairment, neurogenic language and motor speech disorders, pragmatic language difficulties associated with autism spectrum disorder, and voice disorders.*Provided clinical supervision for Wayne State University SLP graduate students.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English/Language Arts Teacher Education