Janice Hay, M.A., CCC-SLP has over a decade of experience working at a private practice in Bethesda, MD and in the Washington, DC area.  In August 2017, Janice opened Two Way Speech when her family relocated to Atlanta, GA. In 2021, Janice relocated back to her husband’s home town of Sewickley, PA. She is excited to bring Two Way Speech and her clinical expertise to Western Pennsylvania. Janice has collaborated with some of the best speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, educational consultants, nutritionists, and ABA therapists.

Some notable areas Janice is trained in include:

• Dynamic Tactile and Temporal Cueing (DTTC) by Edythe A. Strand

• Executive Functioing/ADHD courses by Russell Barkley, Peg Dawson, and Jennifer Wilke-Deaton

• Tera Sumpter Seeds of Learning cohort Summer 2024

• Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol

• Prompt Level 1

• Beckman Oral motor, and Beckman Oro-facial Deep Tissue Release

• Lindamood-Bell Talkies Program

• Hodson’s Cycles Approach

• Play and Language from Carol Westby

• Social Thinking from Michelle Garcia Winner

• Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) feeding program

• The Sensory-Motor feeding Approach by Lori Overland.

• Floortime/DIR, the Affect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC)

• Clinical Implications for Tongue Thrusts and Lisps by Robyn Merkel-Waslsh

Janice has experience and expertise evaluating and treating a wide range of speech, language, social, and oral-motor feeding delays/disorders including: receptive and expressive language delays/disorders, autism spectrum disorder, apraxia of speech, ADHD, articulation disorders, sensory processing disorders, pragmatic/social language, and oral motor feeding difficulty.

She treats clients from birth through adolescence. Her strong relationships with her clients and their families have allowed her to see how a child’s symptoms can present differently in different stages of development.  Janice is passionate about understanding how a child’s executive functioning system and sensory and motor system impacts the child’s development of speech, language, and play.

Janice received her undergraduate degree at Emerson College in Boston, and her Masters in Speech Language Pathology at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.  She is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia.  She has her Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-language Hearing Association (ASHA).

Janice lives in Sewickley, PA with her husband and two children.