Alexis Gallagher earned her Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from Montclair State University. She is certified by the New Jersey Department of Education as a Speech-Language Specialist and is currently completing her Clinical Fellowship (CF) in Speech-Language Pathology. Alexis is excited to begin her career as a speech-language pathologist, providing compassionate, evidence-based care while continuing to grow under the mentorship of experienced clinicians.
Alexis brings experience from clinical, educational, and research settings, providing evaluation and evidence-based treatment to individuals across the lifespan with a wide range of communication needs. Through her clinical work at the Center for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at Montclair State University, she evaluated and treated children and adults with expressive and receptive language disorders, speech sound disorders, fluency disorders, voice disorders, aphasia, primary progressive aphasia, traumatic brain injury, dysarthria, and apraxia.
In educational settings, Alexis has worked closely with children with receptive and expressive language disorders, pragmatic language differences, speech sound disorders, learning disabilities, and autism spectrum disorder. She has collaborated with teachers and multidisciplinary teams, participated in Child Study Team evaluations and IEP meetings, and developed individualized treatment plans to support each child’s communication, learning, and overall success.
Alexis is also passionate about research and evidence-based practice. She currently serves as a research clinician investigating the use of biofeedback to remediate distorted /r/ productions in school-aged children with residual speech sound disorders, as well as the relationship between speech perception and speech production. In addition, she contributed to research examining early literacy development in preschool-aged children and continues to support the development of the Motor Speech Bank, a research initiative focused on adults with dysarthria and acquired apraxia of speech. As a member of collaborative research teams, Alexis contributed to projects presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention and individually presented at the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NJSHA) Student Poster Session.
During her graduate training, Alexis provided speech-language services at the Adler Aphasia Center, where she facilitated communication groups for adults with aphasia, primary progressive aphasia, traumatic brain injury, dysarthria, apraxia, and other neurological conditions affecting communication.
Alexis is dedicated to providing compassionate, family-centered care that is tailored to each child’s unique strengths, interests, and goals. Alexis values developing meaningful relationships with children and their families, working together to celebrate progress and support success both in and beyond the therapy room. She is grateful to be a part of the Creative Speech Solutions team.