Dr. Nicholas earned her masters and doctoral degrees from Teachers College and has over 30 years' experience in university teaching and provision of clinical services. Her areas of expertise are behavioral evaluation of difficult to test toddlers and children as well as aural habilitation and rehabilitation. Previous professional settings include university faculty, university clinics, municipal and private hospitals and rehabilitation settings. Current areas of interest are supervision and administration.
Elise Wagner has been the Assistant Director of the Edward D. Mysak Speech and Hearing Center since the summer of 2005, having joined our staff in the fall of 2004.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Wagner studied the Biological Basis of Behavior (biopsychology) and completed an unofficial minor in Spanish. At Sargent College of Boston University, she received, with distinction, a Masters degree in Communication Disorders.
Working in a pediatric rehabilitation facility in Boston, she developed an interest in children with autism and communication differences and disabilities in bilingual/bicultural children. Her interests and expertise in pediatric populations were further enhanced with training in Neuro-Developmental Treatment, a holistic approach to working with cerebral palsied children.
Returning to the New York area and focusing on bilingual/bicultural issues, she completed the bilingual extension of the NYS Teacher of Speech/Language Disordered certificate while servicing infants, toddlers and preschoolers at Cassidy's Place, until she joined our staff. She has recently begun doctoral studies here at Teachers College, intending to focus on bilingual/bicultural aspects of communication disorders.
Bernadine has been in the health profession for over fifteen years, with nursing being her first profession. She later graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Stony Brook with dual majors in Linguistics and Biology and a minor in Teaching English as a Second Language. After several years of teaching ESL in public schools, as well as university settings, she received her MS degree in speech/language pathology from Teachers College and worked in various health care settings before joining our staff.
Bernadine's clinical experiences range across the lifespan from infants and toddlers through geriatrics. Primary clinical interests are pediatric feeding/swallowing, fluency, and language disorders in both pediatric and adult populations. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree with primary research interests in dysphagia, fluency, and voice.
Adrienne Frohlich