Rachel

Where are you originally from? Hawaii Kai, Hawaii

Start date at SSH? February 16, 2020

What is your professional area of specialty? Oral Facial Myology, especially with the elementary to middle school kids.

What's your greatest accomplishment? Fixing an /r/ sound to generalized speech

What is something you are great at (can be anything work related or not)? Solving a rubik’s cube

What is your favorite food? Noodles: pasta, ramen, chow mein

When you are not being an amazing SLP or admin what do you do for fun? (what's your hobby) Roller skating, aquariums, pickleball, playing with dogs

What's your favorite book? Any Kind of Dog By Lynn Reiser

What's your favorite color? Pink

What's your favorite movie? Ratatoullie

Who would play you in a movie about your life? Lana Condor or any other short Asian actress probably

What is your biggest pet peeve? Hearing the sound of velcro tearing apart

What is something you want us to know about you? I love animals, let me know if you have pets or want to meet our therapy dog Iyla!

Rachel Graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with her BA in Psychology in 2017 and then got her Master's in Communication Science and Disorders in 2020.

Rachel joined the Speech Solutions team in 2020 ready to bring fresh new ideas. She is always ready to continue learning to expand upon her schooling and give her patients the best experience possible.

Currently, her favorite therapy programs and toys are pecs, Daniel Tiger online games, memory, and puzzles.

In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, pickleball and watching "The Office". She has two dogs and if you see her on online she would love it if you shared your pets with her.

She loves it when patients and their families are open to learning and genuinely interested in what they are doing in therapy.

SUMMARY

• Occupation: Speech Language Pathologist

EDUCATION AND SCHOOL

• Education:

  • Bachelors in Psychology

  • Master’s in Communication Science and Disorders

• School:

  • Hawaii Baptist Academy

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Korea University

  • University of California- Irvine

• Major:

  • Bachelor’s of Arts: Psychology

  • Master’s of Science: Communications Sciences and Disorders