Celina Skrtich

Celina Skrtich is the owner and speech-language pathologist at Highland Horizon Therapy who brings both personal insight and professional rigor to communication care. A former special needs teacher and a parent of children who received speech and occupational therapy, Celina blends classroom-tested strategies with real-world family experience. Her signature emphasis on "communication ecosystems" helps families see speech and language development as part of everyday routines, making progress practical, measurable, and sustainable.

Celina uses a child-centered, play-based approach that centers the child’s interests while equipping caregivers with hands-on tools — what she calls family-centered communication coaching. She has worked with individuals across diagnoses, ages, and clinical settings, and she prioritizes collaborative planning so therapy goals carry over from clinic to home and school. Although monolingual in English, Celina enjoys partnering with multilingual families and …acts as a multilingual-collaboration bridge, coordinating with interpreters, educators, and therapists to support culturally responsive care.

Her work commonly addresses a range of speech, language, and communication needs and services, including:

• Early intervention for speech and language delays  
• Articulation and phonological disorders  
• Expressive and receptive language therapy  
• Social communication support (including work with autism spectrum disorder)  
• Parent and caregiver coaching for home carryover  
• School-age language-based learning supports and classroom collaboration  
• Speech-language evaluations, individualized treatment plans, and progress monitoring  
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) support and coordination

Families searching for a compassionate, family-focused speech-language pathologist who pairs clinical experience with lived knowledge will find Celina’s warm, practical, and collaborative approach especially effective.