Wendy T. Harris, MS CCC-SLP/WDP

Wendy comes to SPT4Kids/IvyRehab as a seasoned speech-language pathologist who specializes in evaluation and treatment for Literacy, and is currently a certified Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in the area of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 1983 from Old Dominion University. While working in a local school system, she became actively involved with Operation Smile and served on two medical missions as a speech pathologist to the Philippines and then Africa providing pre-op and post-op care for patients and their families with cleft lip and palate. In 1991, Wendy graduated with a Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Old Dominion University. Shortly thereafter, Wendy worked for a local children’s hospital where she obtained extensive experience (23 years) working with children with a variety of disorders within the inpatient population (for five years) including oral/motor feeding and development in NICU and Level II Nursery, conducted modified barium swallow studies with radiology for dysphagia population, as well as treating inpatient children for a variety of communication disorders following prematurity, traumatic brain injuries, stroke, and other medical diagnoses. Wendy continued treating children in the area of oral-motor/feeding, articulation, language, fluency and voice in the outpatient arena and for the past several years has specialized in evaluating reading and spelling disorders was a trained provider of the Wilson Reading System. Wendy additionally enjoys working with the adult population providing services for disorders including swallowing/feeding and oral motor skills and communication disorders following stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury. Wendy is committed and passionate to her patients and families developing and providing functional meaningful and functional services for each individual’s needs.