Language and Reading
Speech, Language, and Literacy Therapy for Children
About Pam Payne
Pamela C. Payne, M.S., CCC-SLP
Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language
pampayne@LanguageandReading.com
Ms. Payne is certified by the Specialty Board on Child Language of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) -- a distinction held by fewer than one percent of the certified speech-language pathologists -- and received the 2005 Distinguished Clinical Service Award from the NJ Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Additionally, Ms. Payne was recognized in 1995 by NJSHA for "exemplary commitment to the delivery of speech-language services within a school setting."
Ms. Payne is the creator of Just Enough English for Pragmatics and Paragraphs (JEEPP™), a curriculum to teach language, literacy and speech intelligibility, simultaneous and interactively. A single-page template of linguistic structures is central to the teaching of Request/Protest, Commenting, Follow/Give Directions, Answer/Ask Questions and Beginning Narrative Skills. Children diagnosed as language disordered/delayed, Autism Spectrum Disorder, hearing impaired/cochlear implant, and Childhood Apraxia of Speech have progressed from single words to multi-paragraph stories.
Additionally, Ms. Payne is a co-author of LINKS to Language I - Preverbal Foundations of Discourse©, LINKS to Language II - Linguistic Foundations of Discourse©, and Teaching Tales: Foundation for Narratives©.
She has presented seminars to professionals and parents nationwide since 1990. And, she is a speech-language pathologist in a specialized public school and has a private practice in Morristown, NJ.