BIO
Leslie joined the LSU COMD faculty in January of 2020, as a Clinical Instructor at Louisiana Key Academy and University Laboratory School. She has experience in evaluation and treatment of pediatrics in Early Steps and outpatient settings, as well as adults in acute care, outpatient, and skilled nursing care settings. Leslie has provided intervention for early language, feeding, school-aged speech/language, autism, fluency, developmental disabilities, voice disorders, aphasia, motor speech disorders, dysphagia, and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. She has participated and been an active member of interdisciplinary treatment teams, patient/family education and training, and interdepartmental staff training. She currently supervises therapeutic intervention for school-aged children with articulation, phonology, language, and fluency disorders. Her current interests include early intervention, articulation, phonology, and language disorders in the pediatric population.
Certifications and Licensure
- Member of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2003 – Present
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology 2004 – Present
- Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology Valid License # 7104– Present
- Vital Stim Therapy Provider
- Beckman Oral Motor Certification
- PECS Level 1 Certification
Academic Degrees
B.A. Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Southern Mississippi-2001
M.S. Speech Language Pathology, University of Southern Mississippi-2003