Who We Are
Lisa Sommer-Balog MA, CCC-SLP/TSHH
Chief Speech-Language Pathologist
Lisa Sommer-Balog is a New York and New Jersey State-licensed and nationally certified Speech-Language Pathologist with over 25 years of experience helping her clients develop and grow.
Lisa is PROMPT-trained, and her expertise in the Beckman Oral-Motor Protocol, as well as her advanced expertise and knowledge in treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech, articulation and language delays, feeding and oral-motor challenges, and pragmatic (social language) difficulties, provide her clients with the most advanced support to even the most complex cases—while keeping therapy engaging, positive, and child-centered.
What truly sets Lisa apart is her ability to turn clinical expertise into real-life progress. Whether a child is struggling with eating, producing sounds clearly, organizing or communicating thoughts, or communicating confidently, Lisa designs therapy that is practical, effective, and tailored to each child and family.
In 2010, Lisa founded Kiddo Communication to provide personalized, high-quality therapy. She believes parents are an essential part of the therapy process and provides ongoing education, guidance, and support so progress continues beyond each session.
Additional Information
While leading her clinical practice, Lisa also served as an adjunct instructor and clinical supervisor at the Edward D. Mysak Clinic for Communication Disorders at Teachers College, Columbia University for five years. She taught weekly seminar courses about various topics for the beginning to advanced graduate clinician. Lisa directly supervised six to seven graduate clinicians each semester who were working with patients with a variety of speech and language disorders across the lifespan. Additionally, she collaborated with a variety of professionals in an academic setting to maintain accreditations by ASHA and to develop clinic policies. She graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Speech and Hearing Sciences. She graduated with an MA in Speech-Language Pathology from the Robert L. Milisen Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic at Indiana University.
Lisa’s clinical experiences range across the lifespan from infants and toddlers through geriatric, and across settings from hospitals, rehabilitation centers, private schools, special education schools, and charter schools. However, her primary clinical interests and areas of expertise are in pediatric feeding/swallowing, developmental language and speech disorders and delays, while further expanding the knowledge of the parents, medical professionals, and teachers of the children whom she services.