Africa Instructors

Debra is a treatment clinician and the research co-ordinator at the Toronto Children’s Centre, Speech Foundation of Ontario. She holds an instructor status at the University of Toronto. Debra has focused her clinical skills on the treatment and research of motor speech disorders and has gained extensive experience with the PROMPT system. She has spoken at workshops and conferences internationally and provides consultations to Speech-Language Pathologists provincially on a regular basis. Debra was the first Certified PROMPT Technique-Introduction Workshop Instructor (1990) and began acting as an Instructor in 1983. Since that time she has conducted multiple PROMPT workshops, training courses. If you would like to contact Deb, regarding mentoring, please click here.

Gail received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1986. Gail is ASHA certified, and licensed in speech/language pathology as well as Early Intervention and Assessment in the state of Illinois. She also has her license in speech/language pathology at the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario. Gail has been practicing since 1982 with clinical experience in Toronto, Chicago suburbs and now Ottawa Canada. She has worked at rehabilitation hospitals, schools and cooperatives for children ranging in age from birth to high school with speech and language disorders. She has been in private practice since 2004. Her caseload includes children with apraxia of speech, dysarthria, sensory integration disorders, autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairments, as well as children with neurological impairments. Gail has been using all aspects of PROMPT since 2001. Gail is excited to share what she has learned with speech language pathologists in the US, Canada and internationally. If you would like to contact Gail, regarding mentoring, please click here.

Isabelle completed her maîtrise professionnelle en orthophonie at Université de Montréal in 2005. After seven years as a school-based speech therapist in classes for children with special needs, she now operates a private practice in Mirabel, Québec, Canada. She provides services in French to children aged 18 months to 10 years old presenting with a variety of communication challenges (speech sound disorder, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental language disorder, autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, developmental delays, cognitive impairments…) and she has extensive training in childhood apraxia of speech as well as in autism spectrum disorder.

Jodi is the Founder and Owner of From Play to Words Pediatric Therapy, with three branches in Edmonton, Spruce Grove, and Sherwood Park Alberta, Canada. Her company provides services to preschool and school-age children with Autism, Down syndrome. apraxia and language delays in both preschool and clinical settings. She is also the Executive Director of Learning From Play Educational Foundation, a Program Unit Funding (PUF) provider. Prior to starting her private practice, Jodi had clinical experience in early intervention. Jodi is passionate about parent training and parent involvement in the intervention process. She has been using PROMPT in her practice since 2002. If you wish to contact Jodi regarding mentoring, please click here.

Michele works in her private practice as well as part time at a children's treatment centre in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She graduated in 1993 and has worked with a variety of patients at schools, hospitals and in private practice. Michele has worked extensively in the treatment and evaluation of infants to school aged children with numerous diagnosis' including motor speech disorders, language disorders and pediatric dysphagia. She has utilized all aspects of PROMPT in her practice since she began training in 2001. If you would like to contact Michele, regarding mentoring, please click here.