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August 6, 2001
PROMPT--Can This Therapy Can Help My Child?


Location: St. Barnabas Ambulatory Center (Click for directions)
Date: August 6, 2001
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Please RSVP to kiddietalk@yahoo.com or leave a message at 732. 871. 6013.

Speaker: Barbara Goldfarv Portnoff, M.A. CCC-SLP

Cherab's speaker for August 6th, 2001 is Barbara Goldfarb - Portnoff MA CCC SLP, Certified PROMPT Instructor, who is one of the handful of people in the world who trains other professionals on PROMPT. Barbara attended the first conference for apraxia this past Monday and Tuesday, and will be speaking on the night of the National airing of Inside Edition's segment on verbal apraxia which features various families and professionals from Cherab. All the children featured in Inside Edition are at Scott Bilker's talking page. Please check your local listings for the times and channels as to when Inside Edition will air by you. This August 6th meeting will also mark another anniversary year for Cherab!! We plan on having a celebration cake to mark this event in celebration of our hugely successful conference, Inside Edition, and Cherab's anniversary. Each attendee of this celebration meeting will receive the handouts from Cherab's historic landmark conference for apraxia.


Speaker Biography:

Barbara Goldfarv Portnoff, M.A. CCC-SLP, is the founder and director of TIKES, Therapeutic Intervention for Kids and Educational Support, a private practice in New Jersey devoted to the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with communication disorders in the tri-state area. Barbara has extensive experience working with autistic and PDD populations, language impaired, and oral-motor and speech motor disorders. She also has specialized training in Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), behavior management, pragmatic and developmental approaches. Integral to Barbara's therapeutic philosophy is her commitment to consulting regionally with school boards, parenting and other professional groups. PROMPT has been an important component of her practice since 1993. Barbara holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence, and State Licensure for New York and New Jersey.

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The Cherab Foundation is a world-wide nonprofit organization working to improve the communication skills and education of all children with speech and language delays and disorders. Our area of emphasis is verbal and oral apraxia, severe neurologically-based speech and language disorders that hinder children's ability to speak.

The Foundation is committed to assisting with the development of new therapeutic approaches, preventions and cures to neurologically-based speech disorders. We bring together parents and medical, research, and educational professionals. Please join us and help to give our children a smile and a voice.

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