Bethany Levat, Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist

Bethany Weissman, M.S., CCC-SLP
Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist
Specializing in Apraxia, Articulation Disorders, Language/Developmental Delays, and Social Communication Disorders. Speech-Language Pathology is a field of expertise practiced by a clinician known as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP), also called speech and languagetherapist, or speech therapist, who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of communication disorders and swallowing disorders. After earning her Master of Science Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Syracuse University in 2006, Bethany spent five years working in New York City at a center-based special education preschool as well as working with home-based early intervention, preschool, and school age children. She moved to San Francisco in 2011 where she has gained clinical experience working full time at a private practice, as well as for two Bay Area school districts serving preschool through fifth grade students. Bethany has extensive experience working with children with various language and phonological disorders, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, behavioral challenges, autism and other developmental disorders. She has attended conferences for Social Thinking, PROMPT (PROMPTs for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), DIR/Floortime, and behavior management.