The speech-language department recognizes a need to share with parents/guardians resources that will provide information on communication and skill reinforcement.  Thank you for your home support as we work together to improve students’ communication skills.

Please view the below links for articulation (the production of speech sounds), and oral-motor development (the coordinated movements of the jaw, lips, and tongue for speech sound production),  language (rules for communication), fluency (stuttering), and auditory processing (how we use auditory information), along with strategies for skill reinforcement at home.

Visit this website periodically for updated information on other aspects of communication skill development.

Speech Language Resources

• Growing Out of APD

• Helpful Strategies for Auditory Memory

• Environmental Strategies for Closing Auditory Deficits

• Auditory Processing: Breakdown of Skills

• Preschool Activities to Improve APD

• Overview of Auditory Processing Disorder

• Apps for Auditory Processing

• Understanding Auditiory Processing Disorder in Children

• Speech Fluency and Stuttering

• Books to Enhance Articulation

• Handy Handouts Types of Articulation Errors

• Facilitating Articulation at Home

• Articulation and Speech Sound Development

• Overview of What Speech Is

• Language in Older Students

• Activities to Encourage Language

• Overview of What Language Is

• Speech & Language Apps

Contact Information

Pamela Biss, M.A., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.3107 x5542 (Alpine Elementary School)
Email Pamela Biss

Pamela Conlan, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.1289 x6444 (Mohawk Avenue School)
Email Pamela Conlan

Laura Kistner, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.5770 x4422 (Helen Morgan School)
Email Laura Kistner

Virginia Krieg, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.3107 x5515 (Alpine Elementary School)
Email Virginia Krieg

Kristine Simmons, M.S., CCC/SLP
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.6191 x2287 (Sparta High School)
973.729.3151 x2287 (Sparta Middle School)
Email Kristine Simmons 

Jennifer Pepe M.S., CCC/SLP 
Speech Language Specialist
973.729.3107 x5542 (Alpine Elementary School)
Email Jennifer Pepe