Michelle Albera

Michelle Albera is a speech-language pathologist and certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (Auditory-Verbal Therapist) with 25 years of clinical experience. At the Westchester Medical Center Cochlear Implant Center, she specializes in helping children and adults with hearing loss develop listening and spoken language skills. Her clinical work includes pediatric auditory-verbal therapy, adult aural rehabilitation, and family-centered intervention. She emphasizes parent coaching and empowering families to support their children's listening and spoken language development through everyday interactions and routines. She also serves as a clinical educator for graduate students at Westchester Medical Center. Michelle's additional areas of expertise include language and learning disabilities, literacy development, and reading and writing difficulties. She is trained in the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading. Michelle earned her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from …Emerson College and her B.A. in Speech and Hearing Science from George Washington University.