Jade Kurei

Greetings! I am a multilingual speech-language pathologist who is passionate about helping children and adults build communication skills through creative and functional therapy activities.

My professional interests include:

• ADHD/ADD
• Aphasia
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
• Aural rehabilitation, auditory-verbal therapy
• Autism spectrum disorders
• Bilingual/bicultural populations
• Cognitive-communication disorders
• Deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Dysphagia
• Early intervention
• Reading & literacy
• Speech sound disorders

My past clinical experiences include:

• Externship at Services for Brain Injury, where I assessed and treated adults with cognitive-communication disorders
• Student teaching at Union School District, where I assessed and treated a diverse population of elementary and middle school students
• Child language/specialty clinic at the Watsonville Migrant Headstart Program, where I provided Spanish-only therapy to Spanish-speaking preschoolers
• Child assessment at the Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD), where I provided full speech and language evaluations to a pediatric population
• Adult neurogenic clinic at KACCD, where I provided individual and group therapy to adults with aphasia, right-hemisphere disorders, and cognitive-communication disorders
• Adult language clinic at KACCD, where I provided group therapy to adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders

Some of my past work experiences include:

• Behavior (ABA) therapist at Inizio Interventions (Los Angeles, CA)
• Reading and literacy specialist at County Speech (San Diego, CA)
• Adult language and technology instructor at La Gran Dimensión (San Diego, CA)
• Mandarin teacher at Berryessa Chinese School (San Jose, CA)