Reminder:      RSVP is Required

 

 

Cherokee SPECTRUM Support Group Meeting

Thursday Feb. 7,  2008

7-9 pm

New Victoria Baptist Church

6659 Bells Ferry Rd

Woodstock, GA 30189

 

Speaker: Janice Guice, M.A., C.C.C.-S.L.P.

RDI Program Certified Consultant

 

Topic: What is RDI Program?

 

 

As a wife and mother of two, Janice Guice decided to become a speech language pathologist because of personal experience with significant medical events surrounding one of her own children. That circumstance demonstrated the devastation that comes when a human's ability to communicate is disrupted or fails to develop. From that experience, Janice grew to understand that "the world is both defined by and experienced through communication." It quickly became evident that impaired communication would impact academic, social and ultimately professional success.

            Mrs. Guice returned to school at Eastern Michigan University to study Speech Language Pathology. There she completed her Bachelors of Science in Speech Language Impaired, including a minor in Elementary Education, as well as, her Masters of Arts, completing both degrees with the honor of Summa Cum Laude. After the completion of her Masters Degree, she worked in the public schools, gained extensive experience in child development and academic curriculum, as well as, the diagnosis and treatment of a vast variety of communication impairments and disabilities. Her work has focused on the opportunity to serve children and their families as they seek to develop, restore or augment thei r ability to communicate in a variety of settings critical to a positive quality of life. In 2003 these experiences led her to open her own speech language pathology private practice, Essential Communication, Inc.

Mrs. Guice is nationally certified as a Speech Language Pathologist, licensed as the same in Georgia and holds multiple teaching certificates in Georgia. She has presented research at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, received ASHA’s ACE award (Award for Continuing Education) and nominated two times by her peers for Teacher of the Year.  Mrs. Guice has completed training in Lindamood-Bell’s Learning Processes, including Seeing Stars®, LIPs® and Visualizing and Verbalizing® approach for improving reading comprehension.

Her work with families with children on the autism spectrum has been greatly enriched by her completion of the process to become a RDI® Program Certified Consultant. She was the first and is currently the only RDI® Program Certified Consultant in the state of Georgia. Additionally, in 2006 Mrs. Guice was a contributing author to My Baby Can Dance, Stories of Autism, Asperger’s and Success through the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI®) Program.

 

Please RSVP to Renee  678-493-4925 or

Heidi – hcf67@...

We look forward to seeing you!