Specialty Hospital

Staff Profiles: Speech-Language

Amber Goolbis, M.S., CF-SLP, Joined the Brain Injury Center in 2005. She earned her B.A. in Interpersonal Communication at Tulane University, pursued coursework in Linguistics at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Texas at Austin, and went on to obtain her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of New Hampshire. While working on her graduate degree, Amber participated in a faculty research project on counseling techniques used by clinicians in the context of speech-language therapy. She also designed a master's thesis study on the effects of intensive phonemic awareness training on phonological processing skills and literacy development. Besides her fascination with human communicative processes, Amber is enthralled by world travel. Extensive time spent in Asia, India and Central America has personalized Amber's insight into both receptive and expressive language challenges.

Jane St. Onge, BS, MS, is a Speech Language Pathologist who attended the University of New Hampshire –Durham where she received a B.A. In Music–Vocal Performance, and a B.S. and M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Jane brings to Crotched Mountain clinical experience from a variety of settings. This experience includes educational evaluations and treatment with Kindergarten through 5th grade students at an elementary school in Bedford, NH. Jane also completed a practicum rotation at Exeter Healthcare Outpatient Rehabilitation Center working with adults with traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain cancer, and voice disorders. This practicum also consisted of a unique relationship between the speech department at Exeter Healthcare and the ENT offices at Exeter Hospital, where she would conduct state of the art stroboscopy voice evaluations. Jane has also completed a practicum rotation at SteppingStones, a community based program for individuals living with Brain Injury. This unique placement integrates therapeutic intervention with community re-entry programming such as computer skills classes, public speaking workshops, cultural workshops, and exercise programs. Jane's primary interests in the field of speech-language pathology are technology use, traumatic brain injury, motor speech disorders and voice disorders.