Biography
Vivianne is a licensed Speech and Language Therapist ( Brazilian Council of Speech and Language Therapy (CRFa- RS) and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA)), and is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
She graduated in Speech and Language Therapy in 1999, and achieved her Post Graduation in Oral Motor and Vocal Disorders (IMEC) along with a Master’s Degree in Speech Therapy from the Santa Maria Federal University in Brazil. Throughout her career of more than 20 years, she has placed a special focus on feeding, oral motor and childhood apraxia of speech.
Viviane started more than 10 years back at the Dubai Center for Special Needs (DCSN), serving a variety of students with different cultural backgrounds and diagnosis. She then joined The Physiotherapy and Family Medicine Clinic.
She is recognised today as one of the most prominent pediatric speech and language therapists in the Middle East.
HER CERTIFICATIONS
- Oral Placement therapy by Talk Tools
- Sensory Motor approach for CAS by Talk Tools
- Feeding therapy: A sensory- Motor approach
- Kaufman Speech to Language protocol (K-SLP)
- Prompts for recruiting and Oral Muscular Phonetic targets (PROMPT) Bridging level
- Hanen Programs: It Takes Two to Talk and More Than Words
- Makaton introduction and advanced level
- Beckman Oral motor approach
- Dynamic Tactile Temporal Cueing (DTTC)
- Elklan: Communication Builders for Complex Needs
HER Expertise
- Language and developmental delay
- Rare diseases
- ADHD /ADD
- Voice disorders
- Childhood Apraxia of speech
- Articulation Disorders
- Orthodontic disorders
- Oral motor/ placement and feeding disorders/ picky eaters
- Pervasive developmental disorders/ Autism spectrum Disorders
- Down syndrome
- Cerebral palsy
- Learning disabilities
Blogs by Viviane Cappellari
Importance of Early Detection and Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder has generated big debates over the past decade. Some professionals find it inappropriate to “label” young children, when there…
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What does Intensive Interaction mean?
The Intensive Interaction approach was developed in the 1980s by teachers Dave Hewett and Melanie Nind, at a special education service near London. They realized…
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Rare Disease Awareness Day
Worldwide scientific researches, especially in the genetic field, have identified a considerable number of new disorders, or have labeled some of those that do not…
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Why doesn’t my child want to eat?
One of the scariest challenges mothers can face is not being able to feed their children. Having a child who is a picky eater has…
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What is Apraxia?
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurologically based, childhood speech sound disorder. CAS affects the precision and consistency of the movements which produce speech…
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