Meet Patricia Lee Rode, MA CCC-SLP
Patricia began her career over twenty years ago working at the NYU Langone Center’s Traumatic Brain Injury Unit and Children’s Center. Since that time Patricia has worked at hospitals, clinics, and in private practice. Early in her career she began to work with Early Intervention, and later with the Department of Education as an independent provider. Today Patricia offers both home based therapy and services at private schools, (including the UN International School, Nord Anglia International School NY, the British School New York, and others) in New York City, and in the Hudson Valley, where she resides. Patricia has vast experience in working with children from toddlers to teenagers focusing on speech language development, as well as adults needing rehab.
Patricia’s basis of speech language therapy is through her knowledge of neurology in conjunction with how the brain effects speech language development and speech production. .
She is PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Motor Phonetic Contacts) Trained Level II for many years and has used this modality with developmental verbal dyspraxia. She is also well versed in LSVT (Lee Silverman’s Voice Therapy) and since her early years in NYC, worked with Parkinson’s patients, as well as voice patients, both adults and children.
Patricia has been working with our family since our son was diagnosed with a speech disability at 21 months. I can’t describe how much Patricia and her work have meant to us. Patricia helped our son learn to talk through play; she has always been aware and accommodating of his needs as well as our needs as a family. I am so grateful to Patricia for all she has helped our son learn to do and for the loving support she has provided our family throughout the process. Patricia is an expert in her field, but she is also a loving, generous, understanding provider. I don’t know how our family would have navigated this difficult time without Patricia to help us.”
J.E.
Many parents have brought their children to her as a last resort for disorders such as Apraxia, Selective Mutism, and Autism.
In addition, Patricia treats all childhood speech and language delays and disorders. Patricia believes in a team approach and works closely with parents and para-professionals: OTs, PTs, doctors and Alternative Medicine practitioners including cranial facial, acupuncture and biomedical intervention.
Patricia also has a following of adult patients ranging from cognitive rehab to voice therapy for professional actors and singers. In addition to working with the patient, Patricia works intimately with families, mothers, fathers, and children since these are the people patients spend most of their time with to facilitate strategies in the home environment to help to attain speech language goals.
Publications and Presentations:
- “Developmental Speech & Language: 18 months to 5 Years,” Village Preschool, NYC, NY September 2015
- “Developmental Speech & Language: 18 months to 31/2 Years,” 14th Street Y Preschool, NYC, NY September 2014
- “The Effects of Singing on Parkinson’s Disease,” Brooklyn Parkinson’s Group Press Release, June 2008
- Interviewed by Parent Magazine of the Hudson Valley, “Selective Mutism” Parent Magazine, November 2007
Education
- New York University, New York, Master of Arts in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology/Communication Disorders
- Teacher of Speech and Hearing Handicapped Certification
- Mills College, Oakland, California
- Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art & Psychology
Credentialing
- New York State License in Speech Language Pathology #012540-1
- LSVT Loud Certified 2001 (Lee Silverman Voice Therapy), 2001
- PROMPT (Level II 2004 – Prompts for Restructuring Oral Motor Phonetic Targets), 2004
- Certified Mindfulness Meditation Course for Treating Kids and Teens, 2017
- Certified Hippotherapy Clinical Specialist 2006
- Certified Pet Loss & Grief Counselor, 2015
- Certificate of Completion Standard CPR/AED (Adult/Child/Infant), 2018
- Certified by the Accredited Training Program for Speech Telepractice, Waldo County General Hospital, Belfast, Maine, 2014