Sarah James M.A., CCC-SLP

Sarah James is a speech-language pathologist who has been working at Albemarle Therapy Center since August 2003. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Spanish from Ball State University in Indiana. She holds level one trainings in PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), PECS (Picture-Exchange Communication System) for augmentative/alternative communication, the DIR Floortime approach, as well as training in Oral Motor Placement and feeding therapies through Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's TalkTools company. Sarah currently holds certification from the American Speech and Hearing Association and the Virginia Early Intervention program. She has extensive experience working with children (babies through school-age) with a wide range of needs including: articulation and motor-based speech dysfunction (including childhood apraxia of speech), phonological processes, augmentative/alternative communication needs, language disorders, hearing impairment, communication and aural habilitation following cochlear implant, autism and sensory processing disorders, feeding/oral motor difficulties, and speech and language difficulties arising from many different genetic syndromes. Sarah is a proficient speaker of Spanish and French and enjoys working with children from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. She is grateful for the great privilege to have a job that allows her to help improve the communication, social, and feeding skills of children and support the lives of their families. Sarah sees clients in the Charlottesville location and in-home through Early Intervention.