MEET BRENNA
Owner
Brenna Donovan, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech Pathologist
Brenna received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 and her Master's degree in Communication Disorders from San Francisco State in 2011. She has been a speech therapist for 10 years working in a variety of settings, namely private practice and public schools.
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Brenna began her career in 2011 working for Peninsula Associates, a private practice in Menlo Park, CA. From 2011-2014, she was contracted to work at Canoas Elementary implementing the Morgan Center Model in two moderate-severe special day classes for children on the autism spectrum. In 2014, Brenna and her husband moved to Australia and she continued her work as a speech therapist seeing private clients at Kids First Children's Services in Sydney, Australia. Brenna re-joined Peninsula Associates in 2017, when she and her husband moved back to the bay area. Brenna saw clients in the private clinic as well as worked with Millbrae School District, Portola Valley School District, Las Lomitas School District and the Redwood City School District. Brenna also served students at Athena Academy, a specialized school for children diagnosed with dyslexia. Brenna, her husband, and two young children moved to the east bay in 2019. She currently is a therapist for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District and sees private clients for in home speech therapy services with Tri-Valley Speech Therapy.
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Brenna has experience providing therapy for:
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (mild to severe)
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Reading and writing
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Social skills
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Executive functioning
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Brenna is a California state-licensed speech pathologist who also holds her Certificate of Clinical Competency (CCC) in Speech Language Pathology and is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
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She is a certified provider of the Lidcombe program, a stuttering program for young children who stutter. Brenna is also a trained orofacial myofunctional therapist.