Expert Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy in the heart of the South Bay
Our mission is to provide speech-language therapy services to children through a whole-child, whole-family approach in a safe and supportive community. We help guide parents and caregivers to help their children reach their highest potential. Erika understands the importance of involving parents and caregivers in their child’s speech-language therapy. Erika has a passion for providing high quality 1:1 speech and language therapy to her clients. She has a deep dedication to building meaningful relationships with each child she works with. Utilizing educational training in brain functioning, neuroanatomy and speech/language development, combined with a whole-child approach to treatment, this approach benefits children and their families.
Background & Training
Erika Wurz is a board certified Speech Language Pathologist licensed in both California and New York. She received her Master of Science degree in Speech Language Pathology (SLP) from Nazareth College in New York. She practices in both New York and California, and she holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence from The American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
Erika holds specialized credentials for working with individuals on the Autism Spectrum (Interdisciplinary Specialty Program in Autism). Read more about Erika Wurz, Speech Therapy LLC position on autism.
She started her career working in hospital systems throughout New York, in both pediatrics and acute rehabilitation. She transitioned to working as a school-based SLP, creating and teaching social skills classes to elementary and middle school-aged children.
Erika is best known for her work with Speech Sisters, an instagram platform, that aims to give parents resources to encourage early language growth for their child.
Certifications include:
Orofacial Myology Certification: (In Process) Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders are atypical, adaptive patterns that emerge in the absence of normalized patterns within the orofacial complex. The regular presence of these adaptive movements can often result in a variety of disturbances.
UCLA PEERS®: The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills treatment to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, depression, and other socio-emotional problems.
Social Thinking: The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four through adult develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving.