Fara Augustover

Fara founded Island Wide Speech in 2013, after several years of working in the clinical field. Fara's clientele ranges in age focusing on auditory, speech and language therapy in individual and group sessions. She has a specialty in auditory oral therapy for individuals with hearing loss, auditory processing disorder, and other listening challenges. Fara is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and is licensed in the state of New York as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Difficulties (TSSLD), and is PROMPT Trained. Fara received her Bachelors degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences and Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology from SUNY at Buffalo. Fara's research explores peer-to-peer conversational skills and interactions of children with hearing loss, with a focus on group therapy techniques. She has created and conducted new group programs focusing on social communication of preteens and teenagers with hearing loss. In addition, Fara has executed an infant through toddler program focusing on specific literary protocols and social communication as part of a multidisciplinary team with an audiologist.