Jessica Lenden-Holt Discusses Being a Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist

06/28/21 • 46 min

Jessica Lenden-Holt is the Sr. Director of Clinical Services for Sidekick Therapy Partners and Owner of Speech Therapy with Lenden-Holt (Teachers Pay Teachers store, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube). She have been a speech language pathologist for 14 years. She was a Whittle Scholar at the University of Tennessee Knoxville where she earned a degree in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology and a degree in Spanish with an emphasis on Hispanic Studies. Jessica received an MA degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with an emphasis in Bilingualism/Multiculturalism from the University of Texas Austin. She has studied abroad in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Peru. As well, she worked as a bilingual SLP on the Texas-Mexican border for seven years before moving back to Tennessee. To date, Jessica has nine published articles related to speech language pathology. In her spare time, she loves creating videos and materials for other SLPs!

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