Biography

Janice Brown Parker, M.S., CCC-SLP is an Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor at the Howard University Speech and Hearing Clinic (HUSHC). She is also a 30+-year veteran Speech-Language Pathologist for the District of Columbia Public Schools; in addition, she serves as Chief Executive Officer of Parent SPA, LLC. providing counseling and training to parents of children experiencing problems in speech, language, and/or hearing. She assesses communication skills, evaluates the results of comprehensive plans, and documents the outcomes of intervention services. She collaborates with parents, teachers, and other professionals, advocates for teaching practices, and participates in school-wide curriculum and literacy teams. She also enthusiastically supervises graduate students and clinical fellows because she understands the importance of providing guidance and support to aspiring clinicians to help them enhance their personal development and career growth.

As Founder and CEO; Facilitator of Parent SPA, LLC, she addresses the role of parents in all aspects of the clinical process to increase parental involvement as informants and participants in the clinical processes of evaluation and management; to provide counseling and training to parents of children experiencing problems in speech, language, and/or hearing; and to educate parents relative to speech, language, and hearing difficulties in children and adolescents.