Isabel Tan

Isabel is a creative pediatric Speech and Language Therapist from Singapore. She attended the University of Queensland in Australia where she completed a Bachelor of Speech Pathology in 1999.

In the earlier part of her career, Isabel worked in NUH, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Child Guidance Clinic. After that, she transitioned to work in a local school for children with special needs for ten years. Since 2021, she has been working in private therapy clinics.

Isabel aims to help children to be better communicators and to enable children to have sufficient language skills to meet their communication and academic needs.

Isabel has a special interest in working with school-aged children and guiding them in closing the gaps they may have in their language and communication. She believes that rapport is crucial between a therapist and a child and does her utmost to ensure there is a lot of laughter in her sessions!

Certification:

• Speech Sound Disorders:The Basics and Beyond by Caroline Bowen
• PROMPT therapy (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)
• Social Thinking by Michelle Garcia Winner
• Lindamood Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking