Brooklyn Letters
1139 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn
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We would highly recommend Ally! Our son always asks about her, so very thankful to Brooklyn Letters for introducing us.
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I cannot express how grateful and rewarding my experience with Brooklyn Letters has been. Her tutor Ms. Daria is so knowledgeable, amazing, kind and awesome. My daughter has made so much progress in Literacy and Math and it's all … More thanks to Ms. Daria. I know my daughter is sad that she can no longer work with Ms. Daria, as she looked forward to their sessions every week. Thank you again!
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Nicole has been an amazing therapist!! She played a tremendous role in our daughter’s speech progress and overall development. She has come such a long way and we are so happy with the therapy she received!
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We could not be happier with the services Valerie provided! She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable and provided significant guidance to support our daughter's speech development outside of our scheduled sessions. She established … More a great working relationship with her, and she will definitely be missed! Your business model is amazing and it was an absolute pleasure working with Valerie. I've referred your organization and Valerie to the Executive Director of our daughter's school and friends/colleagues who are in need of speech therapy services.
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Christina was absolutely wonderful. She went out of her way to win my son over and it worked. He looked forward to her visits and his speech improved so much under her care. She was super flexible and it’s clear she truly cares. We adore … More Christina and we’re going to miss her. Almost sad he improved so much! She’s simply amazing and we can’t say enough how great she is. I would recommend her services to anyone and everyone, without hesitation. Thank you so much for connecting us with her!
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We cannot say enough good things about Effie, the ASL teacher, who was so engaged and effective with our 2 year old daughter from the very first session! Effie gladly included our whole family in the sessions! Her expertise and fantastic … More personality gave our daughter a way to communicate that she was so desperately seeking. The coordinators at Brooklyn Letters were so helpful and communicative…I would highly recommend their services!
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Samantha Dalmas was fantastic! We saw her for a feeding therapy evaluation and while she doesn’t think my daughter needs more feeding therapy sessions at this time, but she gave me lots of tips to try. If my daughter's doctors want … More to see more progress at her next appointment, I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Samantha again.
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Brooklyn Letters was recommended to me through a friend's speech therapist friend in NJ. The articulation evaluation for my daughter went well. We were pleased with Kristin's services.
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Melissa was wonderful. Our daughter warmed to her immediately and by the time she left, had already started "practicing" some of the techniques Melissa had shown her. I will not hesitate at all to reach out to Melissa again, should … More the need arise.
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Aileen was INCREDIBLY helpful to us, both in assessing possible origins of my grandson's food aversions, as well as informing us of various available interventions to consider.
I can’t thank you and Brooklyn Letters enough for connecting … More us with Aileen. In all our feeding therapy journey we have not gotten anything near the kind of benefit that we did from her. Her knowledge, professionalism, and responsiveness have put us on the path of progress with my grandson and has also made us feel genuinely well cared for. -
We were amazed with Allison! She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. … More I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.
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My sessions with Karen have been extremely helpful. My speech has improved tremendously. In fact, I just finished 2 hours of conducting interviews with a consulting client via MS Teams and I have an upcoming conference call. Both my … More neurologist and neurosurgeon remarked about how good my speech is. Much of the day it is perfect, although I still have some rough spots when I get tired or speak too quickly. One of my granddaughters is a speech pathology student at Ithaca College. She sat in on 2 sessions while she was home for winter break, and she was very impressed with Karen.
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We were delighted with Christie. First, and most importantly, our son made great strides under her guidance. So great, that we felt he no longer needed help! She was incredibly patient and kind with him and our son really responded to … More her. Christie was also great with me and my wife. She provided thorough and informative updates on our son's progress and which exercises she was using with him, so we could reinforce what she was teaching him. All in all, we had a fabulous experience with Christie and would highly recommend her.
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Theo was wonderful and his work with my son has produced some progress. I am grateful for the services Theo provided.
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Highly recommend Jill. She is a total pleasure to work with. After a few months working with Jill, my son is reading above grade level and LOVES to read. Mission accomplished!
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Paige was great and we had been really happy with her. I would highly recommend her! I recommend Brooklyn Letters to whomever asks for a speech therapist.
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Isabel was WONDERFUL and our son absolutely adored her, and he is making great progress with his reading and writing.
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Theo was fantastic with our 4yo son. We were very worried that his progress would fall off when we had to switch to remote sessions, but Theo kept our son happy and engaged through the screen. Highly highly recommend!
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We've been working with Theo from Brooklyn Letters for close to 4 months now and the results are apparent; our daughter has vastly improved her speech in a relatively short amount of time. We make "Theo Day" a celebration … More in our house with pancakes for breakfast, and the enthusiasm is matched in the sessions. Theo is fun, patient, professional, and caring, and he gives us the tools to take the lessons beyond the session. Thank you Theo, and Brooklyn Letters, for helping our daughter express herself.
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I worked with Alina to enhance my pronunciation, tone, and pacing while communicating socially and in a work environment. She was great to work with and clear about goals and learning objectives. The improvement from day 1 has been tremendous! … More
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Cathy has been excellent with us and our son. We will sorely miss her. He has improved significantly with Cathy’s help. Cathy was a true partner with us, especially as we pursued additional help through our son’s school system.
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We really loved working with Alina, she is so fantastic. Patient yet firm, and determined the best course of action very clearly and succintly for us. And it all transitioned so well to Zoom as well. I will definitely be back in touch for … More services for our other child after summer break!
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Vera was amazing! My 11 yo daughter made progress so quickly and really looked forward to her sessions. She was kept motivated and engaged.
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The work that Allison P. did with our daughter over the years has been invaluable to us. Our daughter had such a good relationship with Allison, and it allowed them to work really well together - even remotely these past 6 months. This … More year, Allison went above and beyond by helping us throughout the neuropsych eval we did, trying to re-open our daughter's IEP at her school, and eventually landing her at our chosen school. She was in contact with our daughter's teachers, with the neuropsychologist, and made herself available as a reference to speak on behalf of our daughter's learning differences.
Allison stopped by our house last week to give our daughter cupcakes and say goodbye, and I literally cried with appreciation for what an amazing speech therapist she has been. She has been our daughter's biggest champion. The new families that she will work with this year are lucky to have her. -
Sydney was great! Our son was sad to end his sessions with her, which says a lot. We appreciated her honest assessment of his skill level, and he now has materials to self monitor and practice. Thank you!
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Our experience with Theo was terrific. Theo was great with my son. He developed a positive relationship with him based on sincerity, respect, trust and a deep personal connection. In their lessons, Theo was encouraging, creative and kind. … More He helped our son understand how to differentiate the sounds he made when he spoke, and gave him great exercises to practice every week between lessons. Our son was sorry to have the lessons come to an end, but recognized that Theo had helped him as much as possible and it was time for him to stop. Theo explained to him (and us) how to keep working to get the last 5%, and encouraged him to keep working on the exercises on his own. I have recommended Theo to another parent who noticed my son's improvement and inquired for her own son.
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"I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Michelle Macroy-Higgins. We are extremely pleased with her work with our daughter. I was so grateful for my daughter to have a speech therapist who is a researcher (specialty in late … More talkers), graduate professor and practitioner. Her expertise was clearly evident in our conversations and work with our daughter. She was very responsive to my questions and often sent articles and other materials about language development that I found helpful. Thankfully, my daughter's speech improved tremendously. Michelle developed such a warm relationship with my daughter. My daughter was always excited to see Michelle and would greet her at the door with a big hug. Lastly, I would add that Michelle always demonstrated empathy with me as a mother who was initially worried about her daughter's language development. I could go on and on about how pleased we were with Michelle's work."
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Theo is a wonderful Clinton Hill speech therapist. We were really pleased with him. Our son showed drastic improvement, not only in his speech but in his confidence.
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Alexa has been an enthusiastic, reliable, well prepared and caring teacher for our 6 year old daughter. She has been able to improve and increase our daughter's confidence lesson by lesson with patience and competence; through varied … More and productive didactic practice. Alexa has engaged our daughter in several activities that always kept her motivated and eager to learn literacy. My wife and I, both of us are educators, feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe Alexa's pedagogical skills. Alexa has had a big impact on our daughter literacy growth. Thank you Brooklyn Letters!
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We were absolutely DELIGHTED with Marsha's services. She was wonderful. We found her to be kind, fun, engaging, very knowledgeable. She provided us with clear instructions and additional written handouts each week. She engaged our … More son with different techniques and toys, and showed us how to use her techniques when we were interacting with him. I actually just texted her on Saturday - Our son finally said "more" - one of the target words we had been working on with her. It was a total joy to hear, and I had to share it with her - she wrote back immediately to congratulate us. I am so appreciative of her expertise, and wish we could have seen her for longer. I recommended her to another family in our neighborhood who is looking for a speech therapist.
Manhattan speech language evaluations
Serving You Since 2010! We Are Caring Speech-Language Pathologists & Educators Traveling to Your Manhattan, NYC Home:
Manhattan Speech Language Evaluations and Assessments
If you need NYC speech, language, or feeding services, please be in touch with one of our licensed speech-language therapists/pathologists. We will travel to you and evaluate children and students of all ages, including adults. Do you have concerns about speech/enunciation/pronunciation, vocabulary, late talking, language skills (expressive and receptive), social skills, literacy (decoding, spelling, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing), and working memory, please reach out to us!
No need to leave your home! We come to you, providing speech-language and feeding therapy, literacy, and math tutoring. We offer remote and in-home sessions based on your own schedule! With one-on-one attention, we can help you make measurable progress! Free remote meet & greets, no fee 15-minute initial phone consults, and no contracts: pay as you go!
Speech-Language Therapist (Pathologist) and a Learning Specialist
At Manhattan Letters (owned and operated by Brooklyn Letters), we offer a variety of speech-language evaluations. Our speech, language, and feeding evaluations are out-of-network, and we can provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance company. We also offer bilingual services! We work with all ages, evaluate and treat:
Speech disorders occur when a person has trouble producing speech sounds and blending them to form intelligible words. Speech disorders include apraxia of speech, dysarthria, and articulation or phonological disorders.
Expressive language delays/disorders, also known as expressive language delays, are characterized by difficulties in using spoken language, such as decreased vocabulary and decreased spoken utterance length. Language disorders are classified into two types: expressive and mixed expressive-receptive language disorders. These conditions can be inherited, developmental, or result from traumatic brain injuries. As child ages, students can develop difficulties with their writing skills due to difficulties expressing themselves.
Receptive language delays/disorders (part of expressive/receptive language delays/disorders) demonstrate difficulty with comprehension or understanding the words or complexity of what the speaker says. Children, compared to peers, have difficulties answering questions, following directions, and underlying sequential information. As child ages, students can develop difficulties with their reading comprehension skills due to auditory comprehension issues.
Voice or resonance disorders. Voice or resonance disorders are issues with how one’s voice sounds. Someone’s voice may sound hoarse, lose their voice easily, speak through their nose or too loudly, or be unable to make sounds.
Social communication refers to verbal and nonverbal communication in social situations. This includes how well one communicates socially, follows conversation rules and story-telling (an aspect of expressive language known as narratives), tells jokes, and speaks with different people in different situations.
Cognitive-Communication disorder. A person with a cognitive-communication disorder may struggle with organization, memory, attention, problem-solving, and other thinking skills. A traumatic brain injury, a stroke, dementia, or a congenital can cause this.
Feeding disorders, also known as dysphagia, are difficulties chewing, sucking, and swallowing foods and liquids. We also work with picky eaters.
TIER 1 EVALUATIONS & ASSESSMENTS (Home, School, English, Multilingual) Performed by Licensed Speech-Language Pathologists/Therapists
The evaluation includes at least a one-hour in-home or a-school visit during which we meet with you and your child, review previous reports, testing, and so on, and produce a 1.5- to 3-page report with professional impressions, recommendations, and goals (if services are recommended) within ten business days. This report can be presented to private schools and professionals outside of Manhattan Letters. It is not appropriate for IEPs (see TIER2). It contributes to establishing the need for significant but mild articulation and expressive language therapy and updating current therapy objectives.
TIER 2 SPEECH LANGUAGE EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT (Home, School, English, Multilingual) Performed by Licensed Speech-Language Pathologists/Therapists.
TIER2 Evaluations are more in-depth than TIER1 Evaluations and include literacy assessments performed by licensed language therapists. TIER2 evaluations are ideal for private CPSE and CSE assessments. A TIER2 Evaluation is suggested when a child has more than a few speech sound errors that are inappropriate for his or her age and significant concerns about understanding and using oral and written language, especially when the child is 48 months or older.
All of our TIER 2 Evaluations occur in a quiet area of your home during a single visit. If you are looking for office space, please see the list below. These visits will last 1-3 hours, with breaks for your child. Occasionally, a child cannot complete the testing within the time allotted for assessments.
Meet our Manhattan Speech Language Therapist, Michelle
MICHELLE D.
M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech Language Pathologist
Michelle is a New York State certified speech and language pathologist with over 10 years of experience. Michelle proudly received her BS from the University of Maryland and her MA/TSSLD from Hofstra University. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech and Hearing Association, and in her spare time, loves mentoring future speech therapists from New York City colleges. Michelle is a tenured speech and language pathologist with the NYC board of education, where she serves on the special education team and child-referral team.
She has worked for the past eleven years in a Title One elementary and middle school, completing both treatment and evaluations for the students. Additionally, Michelle has 10 years of experience providing evaluations and treatment for NYS Early Intervention. Her passions have grown to include tutoring in all English language arts subjects, as well as math through 5th grade.
Currently, Michelle services students from birth to 8th grade. Her therapy targets expressive/receptive language delays, fluency, articulation disorders, phonological disorders, learning disabilities, apraxia, ADD and ADHD, pragmatic and social skills, executive functioning disabilities, literacy, reading and writing deficits, and math skills. Michelle is trained in multiple reading and writing programs such as Recipe for Reading, Fundations, Lively Letters, Sounds in Motion, The Writing Revolution, and other Orton-Gillingham approaches. She provides dynamic in-person and remote speech and language services.
Michelle uses her knowledge of communication skills to enhance reading and writing skills, including comprehension, organization, and written output. Her background in speech also allows Michelle to tackle underlying comprehension deficits related to math word problems and the breakdown of math concepts. Michelle loves working with children of all ages and determining the best intervention methods for her students.
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