Ms. Anisha completed her Master’s Degree in the field of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, India in the year 2015. She is certified in providing Oral Placement Therapy and family centred approaches like DIR/Floortime® and Hanen Programs

Experience:

In 2015, Ms. Anisha started working as a speech therapist and was affiliated with multidisciplinary paediatric therapy centres in subcontinent. In 2016, she founded Vikas Speech Therapy Clinic in Thane, India and was attached to Institute for Psychological Health, Thane, India. In 2018, she got an opportunity to work with Bollywood celebrities wherein she trained actress Anushka Sharma to play the role of an especially abled person in a Movie. After working for over 5 years in the field of paediatric speech therapy in Subcontinent, she moved to United Arab Emirates and worked at Bloom Therapy Speech centre, Dubai before joining NMC Royal Family Medical Centre, Abu Dhabi. She has developed a checklist for assessing pragmatic skills in pre-schoolers and same has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Special interests:

Over the years she has inculcated immense interest in assessment and further intervention of children with:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder


• Developmental Delays


• Childhood Apraxia of Speech


• Sensory Processing Disorders


• Semantic-Pragmatic Difficulties


• Feeding and Swallowing Difficulties


• Phonological disorders and Misarticulations


• Fluency Disorders /Stuttering/Cluttering

Languages spoken: English, Hindi, Marathi