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Communication Sciences & Disorders

• Clinical Faculty
• Jeri Weinstein-Blum, MS, CCC-SLP
  Clinic Director
  
  Specializes in voice and neurogrnic communication disorders.
  
  email: jblum@liu.edu
  
  
  

  Prior to coming to LIU-Brooklyn, Ms. Blum held the position of Director of The Speech/Language and Learning Center at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where she had been employed in the Department of Otolaryngology for over 16 years. She has also held positions at the Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, New York and at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. Ms. Blum's areas of interest include childhood speech and language disorders, voice disorders in children and adults and neurogenic communication disorders. She has a special interest in augmentative and titleernative communication and has worked extensively with patients who have ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). She has been a speaker on all of these topics throughout the metropolitan area and has been involved with various research projects in the communication sciences

• Bridget Dwyer,MS, CCC-SLP
  Assistant Clinic Administrator
  
  Specializes in treatment of high-risk infants and language development in preshoolers.
  
  email: Bridget.Dwyer@liu.edu
  
  

  Over the past twenty years, Professor Dwyer has had diverse professional experiences as a clinician, supervisor and administrator while working in a variety of medical, clinical and educational settings. Having been an adjunct lecturer at LIU for several years, Professor Dwyer has now joined the department full-time and serves as the Assistant Clinic Director of the Downtown Brooklyn Speech and Hearing Center. Professor Dwyer's particular area of expertise is in working with infants and toddlers with developmental delays and oral-motor deficits.

• Elaine Geller, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  
  Specializes in pervasive developmental disabilities in children, and language/learning disorders.
  
  email: EGeller@liu.edu
  
  
  

  Elaine Geller has been engaged in graduate teaching and clinical supervision over the last twenty years. Her interests are in normal child language acquisition and childhood language disorders. Dr. Geller has lectured across the country in the area of clinical pragmatics and its application to childhood language disorders. Dr. Geller's current research interests involve pragmatic development in autistic children, early narrative and play development from a cross-cultural perspective, and counseling in speech-language pathology. She is presently the Graduate Program Director for the Department

• Gina Youmans, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  
  Specializes in adult speech, language and communcation disorders following stroke and brain injury.
  
  email: Gina.Youmans@liu.edu
  
  

  Gina Youmans is researching functional communication treatments for individuals with aphasia, and perspective-taking ability in individuals with Alzheimer's-type dementia. Her clinical and academic emphasis is in the area of adult neurogenic communication disorders. She has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for several years in acute, rehabilitation and outpatient settings, and currently supervises students and treats clients in the LIU Downtown Brooklyn Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. Currently she teaches courses in Neuroanatomy and Phonetics.

• Nelson Moses, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  
  Specializes in pervasive and other developmental disabilities in children, and adults.
  
  email: nmoses@liu.edu
  
  
  

  Nelson Moses teaches courses on research, cognitive science, and language development and disorders. He has published a number of articles on applying Piagetian Theory to the practice of speech-language pathology and special education, supervision, and the study of adult cognition. He is also the co-author, along with Harriet Klein, of two texts on intervention planning with children and adults with communication problems, published by Allyn & Bacon. Dr. Moses has a long history serving children with severe and profound developmental disabilities, and consults with several preschools on the treatment of children with Pervasive Developmental Disabilities

• Sylvia Yúdice Walters, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  
  Specializes in articulation/phonological disorders monolingual and bilingual (English/Spanish) children, and oral/aural habilitation in deaf children.
  
  email: Sylvia.Walters@liu.edu
  
  

  Sylvia Yudice Walters has extensive clinical and supervisory experience working with deaf and communicatively impaired bilingual children.  She teaches courses in phonetics, articulation/ phonological disorders, language development and communication disorders in bilingual-multicultural populations, and speech and language development in deaf children.  Dr. Walters’ current research involves phonological development in bilingual preschool children.  She currently serves as Undergraduate Program Director to the Department.

• Luis F. Riquelme, MS, CCC-SLP
  
  Specializes in adult neurogenic communication disorders, bilingualism/multiculturalism and dysphagia.
  
  email: Luis.Riquelme@liu.edu
  
  
  

  Luis F. Riquelme's clinical experience focuses on adult neurogenics, swallowing disorders and bilingual adult, adolescent and school-age populations. He also has extensive experience in program development and quality improvement. Prof. Riquelme has developed Dysphagia Programs at acute care and long-term care facilities in New York City and is a co-owner of Riquelme & Santo, PC, a private practice in Brooklyn. He was 1999 President of the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA) and has served on many local, state and national level committees. At the national level, he is a member of the Multicultural Issues Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and Co-Chair of the Hispanic Caucus for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a related professional organization of ASHA. Most recently, he has been asked to repreent ASHA in the media on issues related to bilingualism. He also serves on the Bias Review Team of The Psychological Corporation; is a consultant to the NYS Education Department-funded Bilingual Personnel Preparation Center; and represent ASHA on a special Federal panel on research needs for the HIV/AIDS community. At present he is a regional investigator for an NIH-funded national grant project looking at liquid aspiration in persons with dementia and/or Parkinson's Disease. He has local and national publications and presentations on topics of multiculturalism/bilingualism, dysphagia, report writing, and quality improvement for service delivery.