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SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST (SPECTRUM)

Nikki rabovsky

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST, COACH, CERTIFIED AUTISM SPECIALIST (SPECTRUM)

Nikki Rabovsky, M.S., CCC-SLP, TSSLD is a licensed speech-language pathologist who received her bachelor’s degree in Hearing and Speech Sciences from the University of Maryland and her Master of Science in Communication Sciences from Hunter College. Nikki holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is also certified as a Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities (TSSLD) in New York State.

Nikki currently works at a special education private school in New York City as a learning specialist where she provides daily one-to-one support and focuses on building positive relationships, individualized curriculums, and a productive learning environment for her students. She has experience working with individuals in preschool through young adulthood with a variety of needs and learning profiles. She specializes in providing support within the areas of receptive and expressive language, executive functioning, social and emotional development, and problem-solving.

EXPERTISE

Autism/Asperger’s

ADHD

Learning disabilities

Receptive and expressive language

Articulation

Executive functioning

Social skills and communication

Problem solving

Time management

Perspective taking

Academic support

Children, teens, and young adults

Autism

“The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client. Our job is to evoke that healing power… and support it in its expression and development. We are not the healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.”
- Ron Kurtz
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Trauma

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness...Trauma is about loss of connection—to ourselves, our bodies, our families, to others, and to the world around us. This disconnection is often hard to recognize because it doesn't happen all at once but rather over time.”
- Peter Levine
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OCD

“A lot of people assume that having OCD means liking things organized or hating germs. It tends to be treated like a quirk or an endearing trait. But it's so much more than that. It's the one thing that prohibits me from being free of myself.” - Whitney Amazeen
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ADHD

“Think of having ADHD in this way… You have a ‘Ferrari’ brain but with ‘Chevy’ brakes.”
- Jonathan Mooney
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