Lily Vedder grew up in southeastern Ohio. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 2011. For graduate school, she decided to spread her wings and attend New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She obtained her Master’s degree in communication disorders in 2015. Her clinical fellowship was done in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Harrisonburg, Virginia working with the birth to three years population. This experience helped to shape her family-centered and functional therapy approach. From there, she moved to central Ohio to work in a preschool for 6 years where she gained a holistic viewpoint. She has also had some experience in the in-patient and out-patient worlds primarily working with children. Lily has obtained her Clinical Certificate of Competency from the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
Experience
Although Lily is not a certified bilingual clinician, she has enjoyed using her Spanish skills to help service families from grad school and throughout her career. She is glad to encourage families to incorporate whatever languages are important to them and share her expertise in bilingualism. Lily also incorporates some simple signs from American Sign Language in her therapy sessions depending upon client’ needs.
Lily has worked with a variety of diagnoses including:
- Autism
- PKU
- Cochlear Implants
- Visually Impairment
- Cerebral Palsy
- Apraxia
- Diabetes
She has experience working with children from birth through elementary school age as well as coaching parents and families. Over the last couple of years, Lily has gained experience in working with alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) with children who do not communicate verbally. She was able to successfully help one family purchase a speech generating device for their child with their insurance.
Certifications and Training
Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS) – Level 1 Training
PECS is a picture communication system to help people who have trouble talking to better communicate their wants and needs.
Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP)
LAMP is an alternative and augmentative communication program that generates speech by allowing icons to be selected. Although the vocabulary is organized into various categories, the program is based on motor planning.
Hanen It Takes Two to Talk certification
It Takes Two to Talk is a framework for helping parents and caregivers become better communication partners with their young children to in turn help the children talk better.