
Mrs. Heather Leavy Rusiewicz M.A., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
406 FISHER HL PITTSBURGH PA, 15282About
Dr. Heather Rusiewicz is a speech language pathologist practicing in PITTSBURGH, PA. Dr. Rusiewicz specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Rusiewicz evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Rusiewicz helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transitioning from analog to digital audio recording in childhood speech sound disorders.
- Distinct developmental profiles in typical speech acquisition.
- Effects of prosody and position on the timing of deictic gestures.
- Data-driven subclassification of speech sound disorders in preschool children.
- Parental experiences and perceptions related to childhood apraxia of speech: Focus on functional implications.
- The Effect of Hand Gesture Cues Within the Treatment of /r/ for a College-Aged Adult With Persisting Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
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