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Owner and lead therapist, Melissa Pierro Morozowski is a private Speech Language Pathologist, and mother of two, providing speech, language, academic, and communication services to people of all ages, specializing in the pediatric population (birth to 18). She holds an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications- Public Relations, and a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders also known as Speech Language Pathology. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and is certified by the Florida Department of Health. She is also a clinical educator and graduate student supervisor for master’s degree SLP students from Florida International University, Florida State University, St. Augustine University and Emerson College.

Melissa has dedicated her entire career to helping people effectively communicate. She has over 10 years experience in the field of communication with diagnosing and remediation of speech, language and communication delays or disorders in the pediatric population. She has worked with children and their families to achieve a variety of therapeutic, academic and personal communication needs. She also utilizes her background in Mass Communications to work as a communication consultant. See the professional speech services tab to learn about unique services offered to help adolescents and adults with communication skills in the work place.

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Melissa participates in numerous professional growth and training certificate programs annually, and has been recognized as an ASHA ACE (Award for Continuing Education) recipient for her dedication to deepen her knowledge in the field in order to meet all of her client’s individual needs.

Melissa Specializes In:

  • Teletherapy Service Delivery
  • PROMPT for Apraxia & Articulation
  • Visualizing & Verbalizing for Language
  • Social Thinking Pragmatic Program
  • Stuttering & Fluency Therapy
  • Early Intervention Ages Birth to 5
  • Lively Letters Literacy Program

Melissa has worked in a variety of settings including, Teletherapy, private practice, hospitals, outpatient clinics, preschools as an early intervention specialist, as well as schools as an Exceptional Student Education (ESE) service provider and as an AM/PM Preschool program SLP teacher. Due to this experience, she is well versed in the IEP process and implementation, as well as state wide curriculum and uses her expertise as a clinician to incorporate language and literacy skills into all therapy and academic sessions to meet each child’s educational and communication needs.

Melissa and her team believe that communication is a vital aspect of life, starting from birth. Melissa is a strong supporter of early intervention and has seen the benefits first hand of interventions beginning as soon as red flags arise. More importantly, she and her team feel passionately that speech and language therapy is not only for children diagnosed with a delay, but benefits all children, as language is the core of learning and development!

Skill Set

Trained and certified in the treatment and diagnosis of:

Articulation Delays
Phonological Disorders
Oral Motor Deficits
Fluency Disorders: Stuttering
Voice Disorders
Language Delays: Receptive and Expressive
Pragmatic Disorders: Social Language
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Cognition: memory, sequencing, problem solving, executive functioning
Motor Speech Disorders: Apraxia, Dysarthria
Auditory Processing Disorders

Melissa’s Team

Natalie Cuellar is a Speech Language Pathologist who provides speech, language, academic, and communication services to individuals of all ages. She is a graduate of Florida State University with a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders for Speech Language Pathology. Natalie has experience in a variety of clinical settings including teletherapy, private practice, hospitals, outpatient clinics, as well as public schools.

She has a passion for helping children and assisting them to meet their full potential. Her professional background consists of working as an Educational Therapist and Academic Interventionist for children with severe learning challenges and related deficits. She has implemented individualized academic interventions and is experienced with a variety of educational programs such as Lindamood-Bell Instruction for Reading & Comprehension, Visualizing and Verbalizing, and Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking Curriculum.

For over 15 years she has dedicated her free time volunteering with children’s hospitals and youth charities such as the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Autism Speaks, Miami Children’s Health Foundation, Colorado Children’s Hospital, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). We are so fortunate to have Ms. Natalie as part of our PS team!

Our office is conveniently located in Broward County, Florida off of I-75 and Griffin Road East in Davie. We are excited  to announce that we also offer Teletherapy services online from the comfort and convenience of your own home!

We proudly serve the South Florida pediatric population and are looking forward to learning how we can assist your family.

Contact PS Speech today to discuss your child’s individual needs, and take the first step in helping them soar to success!