Danielle Hadchity

Danielle graduated from the Lebanese University of Public Health with a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech & Language Therapy in year 2017.

Over the past years, Danielle has had the pleasure of working in private clinics and school settings. She has performed individualised assessments and treatment plans of disorders related to pediatric feeding aversion, language disorders, speech and articulation disorder, fluency disorders, along with pragmatic and social communication disorders.

Throughout the past years, Danielle focused on treating patients of all ages with autism spectrum and related disorders, down’s syndrome, stuttering, apraxia and feeding disorders.

Danielle has a background in behaviour management as she took the Registered Behavioural Technician (RBT) certification in January 2022. She is certified in CBT from the Achology Academy-UK and has developed her expertise in child psychology. Danielle believes the key to her success in her field is parental involvement in addition to the multidisciplinary team. Some of her approaches used in therapy are:

– DIR- Floor time
– Henen- It takes two to talk
– Hanen- More than Words
– Makaton Sign Language
– PROMPT- a tactile-kinesthetic approach to speech sound disorders
– Lidcombe Program
– Lindmood-Bell
– NMES- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
– KT- Kinesio Tapping

Nationality: Lebanese
Spoken Language/s: English and Arabic