Amanda graduated in 2001 from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Across the Lifespan.
She received her Master's of Science degree in Communication Disorders in 2005 from Western Kentucky University, where she
was a member of the Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society (GPA in top 20% of her class).
She is certified by the American Speech-Language
Hearing Association (ASHA), licensed by the State of Georgia and a member of the Georgia Speech-Language Hearing Association (GSHA),
and a member of the American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology.
She has received a Certificate of
Mastery for Dr. Stanley Greenspan's "Professional Course on The Greenspan Floortime Approach" (DIR/Floortime Model), "a
framework that helps clinicians, parents, and educators conduct a comprehensive assessment and develop an intervention program
tailored to the unique challenges and strengths of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental challenges."
She is a certified provider for the FastForword Program, "a radically different online reading intervention that targets
foundational phonemic awareness, language, memory, attention, processing, and sequencing skills." She is also a certified
provider for Reading with TLC, a research-based, clinically proven program that simultaneously trains phonemic awareness,
speech production, & phonics using a multisensory approach. She is trained in Beckman Oral Motor Assessment and Intervention
program, which addresses issues concerning Oral Motor Patterns and Oral Motor Impairments.
She has worked in the field of
Special Education and Speech-Language Pathology since 1999, and has special interests in Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS),
phonological processing disorders, articulation disorders, and Yoga Therapy.
She is also a wife, and a full time mother to 3 wonderfully crazy children.