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Melissa Chernis, M.Cl.Sc., Reg. CASLPO

Speech-Language Pathologist

Melissa is a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 15 years of experience working with children and their families targeting speech/articulation difficulties, motor speech disorders, stuttering, literacy, and expressive and receptive language delays and disorders.

Melissa has had the pleasure of working at Grandview Children’s Centre for 10 years and provided assessments, treatment, and consultation to clients and their caregivers, along with running parent workshops and educator workshops for families and early educators in the Durham Region.

Melissa has completed additional training in the following areas:

Melissa is a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 10 years of experience working with children with articulation delays, motor speech disorders, stuttering, and language delays and disorders.

Melissa is PROMPT trained (motor speech) and has completed the Provincial Fluency 201 training (stuttering). She had the pleasure of working at Grandview Children’s Centre for 10 years and provided assessment, treatment, parent and caregiver workshops and training, and consultation to many children and their families in Durham.

Melissa has completed additional training in the following areas:

Motor Speech:

PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) Level 1

Provincial Motor Speech 101 trained clinician (Speech and Stuttering Institute)

Digging Deeper: Motor Speech Workshop (Deb Goshulak, SLP)

Language:

Hanen: It Takes Two to Talk (for parents of late talkers)

Hanen: More Than Words (for parents of children on the autism spectrum)

Hanen: Talkability (for parents of verbal children on the autism spectrum)

Stuttering:

Lidcombe Program

Provincial Fluency 101 and 201 trained clinician

Eastern Workshop: Using Cognitive Approaches with People Who Stutter (Stuttering Foundation & Boston University - week long fellowship)

AAC:

PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) Level 1

Now You're Talking! Becoming Fluent in the Unity Language Program (Pittsburgh AAC Language Seminar Series)