CRAIG'S BIOGRAPHY
Craig Selinger is a NY State licensed speech-language therapist (pathologist) and a learning specialist who works with all ages. Craig and his team of speech-language therapists, literacy, and math specialists, travel to your home throughout the NYC metro area.
- Craig was interviewed by NBC News, The Atlantic and the New York Magazine. Brooklyn Letters was mentioned by the NY Times and Yahoo.com. He has been published in the Journal Brain Research, Momtastic, NYMetro Parents, Healthline, About.com, Which Education System Is the Best in the World? (And Why), Does ADHD Affect Speech, Practice a ‘Getting Out of the House’ Routine to Make Life Way Easier, and was interviewed live on WPIX 11. He was also quoted in the guide How to Become a Speech-Language Pathologist.
- Craig lectured at Bard High School Early College (BHSEC), NYU Langone, Mount Sinai Hospital, Educational Alliance, West Side YMCA, private schools, offered professional CEU courses, and presented professional development to a school in New Delhi, India,
- Craig Selinger presented at the Everyone Reading Conference What is Executive Functioning?
- New York City Parents’ Primer Round Table Discussion for Dyslexia for School-Aged Children: Moderated by Craig Selinger. Understand the value of a neuropsychological evaluation, learn how to go about transitioning to a new school when your child is struggling academically, obtain basic information related to seeking tuition reimbursement, and become familiar with literacy interventions designed to strengthen reading/decoding and spelling skills.
- Craig Selinger Podcast (scroll down to check out these episodes). Join him and his guests as they discuss topics related to child development, education, therapy, and more! If you are a parent, educator, administrator, doctor, or therapist, join them as they engage in down-to-earth conversations helping each other grow as individuals.
- Guest blog posts:
What Does a Speech-Language Therapist Do? (blog from the Yellin Center) - Check out Craig’s recent articles on
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS
- Masters of Science in Communicative Disorders University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
- Bachelor of Science in Communicative Disorders- University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
- Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology (American Speech Hearing Association)
- New York State Professional License- Speech-Language Pathologist
- PROMPT trained
- Orton-Gillingham Trained (2 graduate credits- approximately 40 hours)
- Early Start Denver Model (ESDM)
- National Tutors Association
- International Dyslexia Association Provider
- Everyone Reading Member
- Bilingual Spanish/English Speech Therapy Provider for Children Younger than 3 years old.
BIO
I’ve worked with children of all ages with and without disabilities for over 18 years as a day camp and sleep away camp counselor, respite care worker, tutor, volunteer, and the last 10 years professionally, in NYC, as a speech language therapist.
1997-2003: MADISON, WISCONSIN: THE LAND OF COWS & CHEESE
Madison is actually a surprisingly progressive liberal city and an epicenter for academic research. Sophomore year, an interesting class entitled Introduction to Communicative Disorders piqued my curiosity. Not knowing anything about speech language pathology, I signed up and became instantly hooked. Dr. Julia Evans, who taught the course, became my mentor for the next four years, and she introduced me to Dr. Seth Pollak, who I worked with for three years. Before you could say abracadabra, I was in grad school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the top programs in the country for speech language pathology. While there I conducted the following:
- Neuropsychological testing on Romanian children adopted in the Midwest
- Neuropsychological research on children from Wisconsin who were abused
- Brain research on school-aged children who had language processing difficulties, examining limited working memory capacities
2003: WELCOME TO THE BIG APPLE
I started my clinical fellowship and later working with children of all ages (babies through adolescents) with varying learning needs. Speech, language, and feeding therapy Check. Reading and writing intervention Check. Socials skills remediation Check. My experiences working in early intervention in families homes and at a school in Queens plus working as an independent contractor for the Board of Education, with preschool and school age students, have led me to work with a diversity of family cultures and backgrounds. I also have training and experience with Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), a type of therapy used with children diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
2005-2007 CLIMBING MT. SINAI
Worked as a pediatric speech language pathologist at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital’s Therapeutic Nursery division of Child Psychiatry. Here, I taught (along with a special education teacher, social worker, and a teacher’s assistant) at a nursery with caregivers and their children incorporating an interdisciplinary model of teaching (each family was assigned a psychiatrist who we collaborated with weekly).
2007 HITTING THE LECTURE CIRCUIT AND OHHHMMMM
I started giving talks to parents, professionals, and schools about early childhood speech and language delays. That same year I also collaborated with a yoga instructor, Marty New, creator of Climb Time Yoga. We developed a curriculum incorporating contemporary scientific research on healthy cognitive and language development with unique yoga partnering exercises; enhancing emotional, social, and communication bonds between parent and child.
2008 MONTESSORI MAGIC
I started working as a learning specialist for a Montessori school (toddlers through 6th grade) in Manhattan as a learning specialist. Here I worked one on one and in the classroom helping students with speech, language, and learning difficulties and I collaborated with their teachers.
2009-2010 NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN
2010 STILL IN BROOKLYN. NOW AWESOME.
I was featured on About.com explaining and modeling six techniques to facilitate early childhood speech and language development and I was later filmed by About.com demonstrating how to teach sight words (reading development).
2011 OFF TO INDIA
I presented my first international lecture along with Sarah Stuntebeck, Brooklyn Letters speech language therapist, to a preschool, The Study, (emphasizes learning through play) in New Delhi, India.
2012 THEMBA TUTORS IS BORN
Craig Selinger started a tutoring company, for all ages, offering tutoring in all core subjects, including services for those with learning differences, test preparation e.g. SAT, regents, SHSAT, etc and adult learning services. What distinguishes our company from the competition is that our tutors are professionals with rigorous academic and professional training in fields related to learning and learning differences.
www.ThembaTutors.com
THE EARLY START DENVER MODEL
October 2012, attended a full day introductory workshop, lectured by Dr. Sally Rogers, at the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain.
Craig Selinger Podcasts
(scroll down to check out these episodes)
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