Contact Information

  • Phone: 201-994-3782
  • 149 W. Pleasant Avenue
    Maywood, NJ 07607
  • uyw@uywspeech.com

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LaKeya Smith M.A. CCC-SLP

Use Your Words Speech and Language Therapy Services
LaKeya Smith is the Director/Owner of Use Your Words Speech Therapy Services. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and her Master’s Degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Pittsburgh. LaKeya has over twenty years of experience in the field of Speech and Language Pathology and has worked in private practice, hospital, outpatient, and school-based settings. Her areas of interest include diagnosis and treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, parent training, early intervention therapy, children with feeding and swallowing disorders, as well as working with young children with an autism spectrum disorder. She has been trained in International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM), Sara Rosenfield-Johnson’s Oral Placement Therapy (OPT), Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets -PROMPT, Sensory-Motor Feeding Therapy, Complex Feeding issues, CAN-EAT Feeding Approach, SOS approach to feeding, Social Thinking, Ascend Orton-Gillingham method for reading instruction as well as sensory integration strategies. She is also a trained and certified Speech-Language Pathologist in Hanen’s “It Takes Two To Talk Parent Training Program.”

“I’ve always had a passion for working with children. I admire their resilience, passion, flexibility, and their ability to learn. I have found that working with children always puts a smile on my face and brightens my mood for the day.”