Eileen Pearlman

Eileen has been a speech-language pathologist since 1974. It has been her pleasure to work with students of different abilities, including regular education students and special education students from 3 years old to 22 years old in the public schools. She has also worked with adults with Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, and a variety of other cognitive challenges. Another specialty for her has been foreign accent modification. Eileen holds a Bachelors Degree, BS, from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, a Masters Degree from University of Illinois, UI, Champagne, IL, a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association (ASHA), and she was a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the area of Exceptional Needs from 2005-2024.

My Approach To Speech Therapy

My approach to therapy revolves around my getting to know my clients and their needs. I think it's very important and takes time to learn about each client, what their needs are and what is most important to them with regards to their communication skills.

What A Session Looks Like With Me

Sessions are constantly evolving to meet a client's communication needs. If a client is working on specific sounds, the session would probably begin with a brief chat on how they feel things are going, then go on to work on the specific sounds with a focus on listening to the sounds, discriminating between correct sound production and their errors on the sound, then instruction on the correct production of the sound and practice. If a client has a language, fluency, voice or other impairment, then those skills would be worked on specific to the problem they are having.

Fun Facts About Eileen

I am married to a great guy and we have two little dogs that rule our house! I also have two wonderful daughters of whom I'm very proud. My older daughter, Jessica, is a heart & kidney transplant patient and my younger daughter is the kidney donor! I enjoy reading, making pottery and Zentangle.