OUR TEAM
Leah Lomiansky, M.Cl.Sc., S-LP(C), Reg. CASLPO
Speech-Language Pathologist & Founder of Speak Volumes
Leah has been a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist since 2013. Since starting her career, Leah has worked in a variety of settings, both public and private including children’s treatment centres, schools and private practice. Leah has developed extensive skills delivering assessments and therapy as well as consultation services, parent training and providing professional development to school staff.
Leah founded Speak Volumes Speech & Language Services and has been maintaining a private practice since 2016.
Leah has a keen interest in working with neurodivergent clients. Her practice has a focus on social communication, working with children who communicate with echolalia (gestalt language processors), clients requiring the support of high tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, as well as literacy interventions. In addition to her work at Speak Volumes, Leah worked part-time as a professor at Humber College in the Health Sciences program. Leah has provided professional development on the topics of gestalt language processing, augmentative and alternative communication and neurodiversity informed practices to several organizations in Ontario, including for speech-language pathologists in Preschool Speech and Language Programs or in school boards.
Leah has completed extensive professional development training including:
- Language Acquisition Through Motor Planning Training & Moving Forward with LAMP on iOS Training (High Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) System)
- Core Language Workshop Training (focused on core high tech AAC communication systems)
- AAC, Literacy & the SLP Workshop from The AAC Academy
- From Echolalia to Self-Generated Language Levels 1 & 2 & 3 (Gestalt Language Processing) by Marge Blanc, SLP
- Meaningful Speech Course (Assessment and Intervention for Gestalt Language Processors)
- AAC & Gestalt Language Processing from Meaningful Speech
- AAC Ally- Rachel Madel Workshop
- PLAY Project Training (Two Day Intensive) & PLAY Project Intensive Implementation Course
- Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) Introductory Workshop
- PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) Level 1 (for children with motor speech disorders) & PROMPT Bridging (Level 2)
- Motor Speech 201 (extensive training involving case studies through the Speech and Stuttering Institute)
- Intro to Neuro-Developmental Treatment for the SLP
- Hanen Certifications: More Than Words, Talkability, It Takes Two to Talk
Meera Mehta, M.H.Sc., S-LP, Reg. CASLPO
Speech-Language Pathologist
Meera has been practising as a paediatric speech-language pathologist since 2019. She has provided therapy in a variety of settings including clients’ homes, in clinics, in schools, and online. Meera has a particular passion for early language, language processing, literacy and speech sound disorders. She loves engaging in play-based and routines-based therapy with her clients and has cultivated strong skills in parent coaching. Meera is constantly expanding her skillset. When she is not seeing clients, she is usually participating in professional development workshops. Some of the workshops that Meera has completed so far include:
- Meaningful Speech course (regarding gestalt language processing, echolalia, and Natural Language Acquisition)
- Delivering SMARTER Intervention (for structured literacy intervention)
- It Takes Two to Talk
- More Than Words
- Introduction to PROMPT (to treat motor speech disorders)
- Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (to treat motor speech disorders)
Jessica Ralph, M.H.Sc., SLP, Reg CASLPO
Speech-Language Pathologist
Jessica received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from Brock University, followed by a Master of Health Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Toronto. Since then, Jessica gained experience working privately (in-home & in-clinic) and publicly (for the Peel Preschool Speech & Language program). Throughout her clinical practice, she realized a passion for supporting neurodivergent children and their families. Jessica continually seeks out new education and information to support her clinical practice. Jessica is an advocate for strengths-focused & play-based therapy, and neurodiversity-affirming care.
Jessica has completed the following professional development courses: – Meaningful Speech (to support children using echolalia to communicate), It Takes Two to Talk (Hanen), Autism Essentials (Reframing Autism), LAMP Words for Life training (for the LAMP high tech augmentative alternative communication system).
