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| Nicole Young-Cline, M.A., CCC - SLP |
| Owner & Director |
| Board Certified & Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist |
| Hanen Certified |
| PROMPT Trained |
| | | Education | | | 1997 - 2001
Southern Illinois University - Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders and Sciences - Graduated Cum Laude
2001 - 2003
Northern Illinois University - Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology | | | | | | Licenses & Certificates | | | Licensed to practice speech-language pathology in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Illinois.
Received certificate of clinical competence awarded through American Speech Hearing Association in September of 2004.
Received the ACE award from ASHA for continuing education in 2007 & 2008. | | | | | | Pediatric Work History | | | Originally from southern Illinois, I moved to Myrtle Beach and worked at the Pee Dee Speech & Hearing Center for two years
prior to opening Young Talkers in September of 2007. My work experience has involved providing clinical, school, and home based therapy for children with speech-language needs; including children who have been diagnosed with Autism, Aspberger's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome. | | | | | | Conferences & Workshops Attended
| | | Medical University of S.C. Auditory Verbal Therapy Training Workshop
Training to work with the pediatric population that have hearing impairments and cochlear implants. | | | | | | "Childhood Apraxia of Speech"
Workshop which provided great tools for specifically working with this pediatric population. | | | | | | "It Takes Two to Talk"
Seminar by the Hanen Program which provided training for working with children ages birth to 6 years of age, as well as their families. | | | | | | "The 3 A's - Management of Autism, ADHD, and Apraxia Cases"
Conference that provided information and training for treatment and evaluation of these specific pediatric populations. | | | | | | "The DIR/Floortime Model"
The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based /Floortime Model is training to help conduct a comprehensive assessment and develop treatment tailored to unique challenges and strengths of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental challenges.
* Received a mastery certificate in this course. | | | | | | "Integrated
Treatment of Feeding, Speech, and Mouth Function in Pediatrics"
Workshop that provided training in these areas of feeding, oral sensory
concerns and challenges, eating and drinking difficulties, orofacial
myofunctional, functional speech, and motor planning concerns for children
with different areas of difficulty (e.g. Autism spectrum disorder, Down
Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and other developmental delays). | | | | | |
"Picky Eaters vs. Problem
Feeders: The SOS Approach to Feeding"
This was a 3-day training conference on the
SOS Approach to Feeding. This is a feeding program that is a non-invasive
developmental approach to feeding. It is designed to assess and address all
the factors involved in feeding difficulties. This approach allows a child
to interact with food in a playful, non-stressful way. It focuses on
increasing a child’s comfort level through exploring and learning about the
different properties of foods, including texture, smell, taste, and
consistency. The SOS approach follows a hierarchy to feeding from tolerating
foods in the room, interacting with the food, smelling, touching, tasting,
and eventually, eating the food. | | | | | |
PROMPT - "Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular, Phonetic Targets"
Intensive training that focused on teaching technique of PROMPT that is
the hands on tactile-kinesthetic input while emphasizing the need to
integrate this into a holistic therapy approach. It addressed the motor
speech hierarchy of what is functional in motor speech system, to determine
where motor speech systems begin to break down, to learn which motor
behaviors result in sound productions and their development and decide where
to begin treatment.
According to research, PROMPT has been used successfully with people that
have: phonological disorders, hearing impairments, dysfluency, aphasia,
dysarthria, apraxia, Autism spectrum disorders, and head injuries. The
philosophy of PROMPT stresses a way of conceptualizing, assessing, and
integrating all aspects of the individual towards functional communicative
interactions. | | | | | | Young Talkers
8703 Highway 17 Bypass, Suite I
Myrtle Beach, SC 29575
(843) 457-1053 |
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