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Speech Therapy Services of the VI
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Speech Therapy Services of the VI
Unlocking Your Potential in the BVI since 2019
Speech Therapy Services of the VI opened its doors in 2018, serving just one client at her after-school daycare. We were privileged to then utilize an extra space at Cedar International School until we outgrew that space.
In January 2023, Speech Therapy Services of the Virgin Islands opened its current location in Sea Cow's Bay on average for three hours per day, seeing over twenty adults and children per week.
Speech Therapy Services of the VI works with children and adults with varying diagnoses, including but not limited to Auditory Processing Disorders, Autism, Language Disorders, Down Syndrome, Strokes, Parkinsons, Dementia.
Speech Therapy Services of the VI prides itself on ensuring up-to-date skills and constantly seeks opportunities to improve knowledge and expertise to better serve its clients.
Empower
Growth
Sandi C. Boyce
Managing Director &
Speech Language Pathologist
Sandi graduated in 2008 from Valdosta State University with a Master's in Communication Disorders. She attained her Bachelor's Degree in 2006 where she graduated Suma Cum Laude with a Minor in Spanish.
She is a daughter of the soil and graduated from BVI High School, now Elmore Stoutt High School. She attained an Associate in Education from H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, where she was the student with the highest grade point average in her year.
Sandi enjoys working with both children and adults. She makes sure to include families and caregivers as she tailors treatment plans specifically created for each client. She makes an effort to understand your concerns and make suggestions to best fit each client's unique needs.
Sandi uses a naturalistic approach to her sessions. Children eagerly run to sessions with her and adults enjoy the time spent working on their goals. She is easy to talk to and loves when clients, parents, and caregivers are engaged.
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Professional Training
Gestalt Language Processing
In Progress
This course teaches the SLP to identify, evaluate, and work with any child who communicates with delayed echolalia (often referred to as scripting).
Mentorship with Emily Diaz with a focus on AAC
October 2023
Interactive sessions with Emily Diaz, focusing on the evaluation and implementations of Augmentative and Alternative Communication with non-verbal and/or minimally verbal clients. Actively able to trouble-shoot intervention options for clients on my caseload requiring additional supports for communication.
More Than Words the Hanen Program for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders or Social Communication Difficulties
March 2023
This training focussed on specific communication needs of young autistic children or children who may benefit from social communication support, employing a naturalistic, family-centered approach that empowers parents to support their child’s communication during everyday interactions.
It Takes Two to Talk The Hanen Program for Parents
January 2023
This training provided evidence-based framework for engaging and coaching parents of children with language delays so they can support their child’s communication development during fun, everyday interactions.
Inside Out Sensory Certificate for SLPs
May 2022
This training provided the SLP with functional strategies to increase communication through regulation and sensory processing.
TOTs 5-step Screening Tool
August 2021
This course focussed on how medical and education professionals including speech-language pathologists, can quickly assess for Tethered Oral Tissues (A.K.A. Tongue Ties) and make the proper referrals to a specialist who has specialized training in this diagnosis.
McNeill Dysphagia Therapy Program
August 2021
McNeill Dysphagia Therapy (MDTP) is a systematic exercise-based approach to dysphagia therapy in adults. Training in MDTP provided step by step instruction for the evaluation and treatment of patients receiving the MDTP approach.
Feeding Therapy: A Sensory-Motor Approach
January 2021
This session helped the therapist to be able to understand the development of the acquisition of feeding skills and to recognize oral feeding deficiencies.
Beckman Oral Motor Assessment and Intervention
December 2020
Training focussed on compensatory hands-on techniques for tonic bite, slow oral transit, tongue thrust, and gag, with over 50 specific intervention strategies for improving facial muscle function for eating and speech, applicable to both adults and children.