JANINE BAKER

janine@westcoastspeech.com  

Days of Work:  Tuesday, Wednesday

Languages spoken: English

Janine Baker, is the owner of West Coast Speech Language Pathology. Janine received her Master of Science degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 1995. Since that time, she expanded her clinical experience working with children in a variety of clinical settings including schools, child development centres, private practice and  public health speech and language departments . Janine opened West Coast Speech Language Pathology in 2005 after her first son was born.

Janine is a proud member of the:

• College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of British Columbia (CSHHPBC).
•  British Columbia Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (BCASLPA)
• Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)

Janine believes very strongly in educating the public regarding speech and language issues and has offered training to parents, teachers and paraprofessionals. Janine loves to work with children with communication impairments and believes that children learn through play. Janine is on the Registry of Service Providers (RASP) list.

Janine actively attends continuing education workshops and conferences related to communication disorders.  Her advanced training includes:

• Lidcombe Program – for stuttering in preschool children
• It Takes Two to Talk® – The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children with Language Delays
• More Than Words® – The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum
• Learning Language and Loving It™ — The Hanen Program® for Early Childhood Educators
• PROMPT ® Certification – for moderate to severe speech production disorders
• R & R Introduction and Intervention Workshop (Loyst and Associates)
• The S.O.S. Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding
• Developmental Individual-difference Relationship-based model (DIR®), Floortime ®
• Compton Pronouncing English as a Second Language (P-ESL) Accent Modification Training
• Oral Facial Myology – From Basics to Habituation

Janine has a special interest in Autism and has attended many inservices and workshops in this area, including many with Michelle Garcia Winner and the Social Thinking approach to Autism.  Janine uses many of these concepts and materials in her therapy with children, teens and young adults.  Additional therapy techniques and underlying philosophies are taken from:

• Dr. Steven Gutstein’s Relationship Development Index (RDI),
• Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA),
• Stanley Greenspan’s DIR/Floor Time,
• David Lloyst’s Reference and Regulate Program (R&R)
• Scott Bellini
• Amy Wetherby
• Barry Prizant