Tala Hershey, M.S. CCC-SLP – WSHLA Co-President
Tala is a licensed and certified Speech and Language Pathologist. She is the founder of Hershey Therapy Practice, PLLC, based in Greenwich, CT. Tala received her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College and her master’s from New York University. She continued to become PROMPT trained, and has training in Sounds in Motion and DIR-Floor Time. She has experience working with children and adults in a variety of settings, including privately, in schools, and in rehabilitation facilities as well as with a variety of disorders, including articulation/phonology, language delay, school-aged language disorders, higher-level language difficulties, social/pragmatic difficulties, fluency/stuttering, voice disorders, and myofunctional swallowing disorders.
Tala can be reached at tala@hersheytherapypractice.com
Lauren is an adjunct professor at Mercy University, where she is an undergraduate instructor for Communication Disorders Majors and a clinical educator for Master’s level students. She is the owner of Confident Communicators, a speech and language private practice. She has extensive experience working in both the preschool setting, with speech and language delayed children, as well as within the private school sector, working with students who have language-based learning deficits. Lauren holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maryland, an M.B.A. in Management from Baruch College and an M.S. in Communication Disorders from Mercy College.
Lauren can be reached at lauralbert20@gmail.com