About Us
The team at gab&go are made up of highly experienced speech therapists who love getting to know their clients, their needs, and watching their clients flourish with our help. Together our highly trained speech therapists can address any of your speech, feeding, and language needs to ensure your optimal functioning throughout your life.
Jennifer Tonelli
Jennifer Occhipinti Tonelli MA,CCC-SLP is a New Jersey State licensed and ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist, with over 20 years of experience. Jen graduated from Trenton State College with a BS degree in Speech Language Pathology and a minor in Deaf Education. She received a MA degree from Montclair State University in Communication and Science Disorders. Jen has experience working in a variety of settings including public schools, private schools, private practice, and home-based early intervention.
During her 20 plus years in the field, Jen has experience in the areas of autism, multiple disabilities, articulation, language, central auditory processing disorders, oral motor skills, tethered oral tissue, feeding therapy, behavioral feeding therapy, early intervention, augmentative systems and/or evaluations, pragmatics, aural rehabilitation, fluency, behavior modification, apraxia, Lindamood Bell Lips reading program, accent reduction, and voice.
- Jen is certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA certified)
- Jen is a member of the New Jersey Speech and Hearing Association (NJSHA)
- Jen is trained in Compton P-ESL program for accent reduction
- Jen is trained in Sara Rosenfeld’s Talk Tools
- Jen is trained in the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol
- Jen has trained with the Center for Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital
- Jen has completed training from the International Association of Orofacial Myology and is currently working towards her certification.
Email: Jen@gabandgospeech.com
Sandy Loeffler-Wengert
Sandy Loeffler-Wengert is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who graduated from Kean University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Disorders and continued her studies and received her Master of Arts degree in Speech Language Pathology. She has over 25 years of practical experience. Sandy is accredited by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence.
Sandy is licensed in both New York and New Jersey and her work experiences include private practice, early intervention and private and public-school settings. Her comprehensive experience includes evaluating and working with infants to adolescents with a wide range of diagnoses: Autism, Multiply Disabled, Cognitive Impairments, Developmental Delays, Auditory Processing Disorders, Receptive-Expressive Language Disorders, Pragmatic language difficulties, behavioral concerns, Articulation Disorders and Apraxia. She is trained in Applied Behavior Analysis and Beckman Oral Motor Protocol.
Email: Sandy@gabandgospeech.com
Ashley Papcun
Ashley Papcun is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who graduated from LaSalle University with a Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology. She has 10 years of practical experience. Ashley is accredited by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence. Ashley is a member of the New Jersey Speech and Hearing Association (NJSHA).
Ashley is licensed in New Jersey and her work experiences include private practice, early intervention and public school settings. Her comprehensive experience includes evaluating and working with infants to adolescents with a wide range of diagnoses: Autism, Multiply Disabled, Cognitive Impairments, Developmental Delays, Auditory Processing Disorders, Receptive-Expressive Language Disorders, Pragmatic language difficulties, behavioral concerns, Articulation Disorders and Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She is Level II: Bridging PROMPT to Intervention trained and both Verbal Behavior and Applied Behavior Analysis trained.
Email: Ashley@gabandgospeech.com
Gopika Shah
Gopika Shah is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology from Nair Hospital, Mumbai, India. She graduated from State University of New York in Buffalo, with a Masters of Arts in Communication Disorders and Sciences degree. Gopika is Licensed in the state of New Jersey and holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence accredited by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).
Gopika has over 7 years of experience in this field. Having worked in both India and the U.S.A she has served populations from various cultures and ethnicities. Her experience in India includes working in a hospital, an outpatient clinic, and schools for autism spectrum disorders and a school catering to children with Cerebral Palsy. After her Masters, Gopika gained experience in various educational and medical settings in New York state; These included acute inpatient care, an outpatient clinic, and a preschool. She is trained in the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol.
Currently, she is working as an SLP at a high school and a middle school in New Jersey. Being in an array of settings has allowed Gopika to gain proficiency in treating children and adults with Apraxia, Dysarthria, CAPD, Aphasias, Stuttering, Articulation Disorders, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. She has also successfully conducted group therapy programs for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (LSVT Program), and stuttering disorder as part of her Master’s program. Gopika is comfortable conversing in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.
Email: Gopika@gabandgospeech.com
Sara Ridgway
Sara Ridgway MA, CCC-SLP is a New Jersey State licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). She has over 2 years of experience in the field since receiving her Master’s degree. Sara graduated from Kean University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media/Film Communication with minors in marketing and speech, language, hearing sciences. She received her Master of Arts degree from Kean University in Speech-Language Pathology.
Sara has experience working in a variety of settings including specialized schools, private practice, inpatient hospital/acute care, and skilled nursing facilities for sub-acute rehabilitation and long term care. Thus far in her career, Sara has experience in the areas of pediatric, adult and geriatric feeding and dysphagia, multiple disabilities/medically fragile pediatrics, high and low-tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), articulation disorders, developmental language disorders, acquired and degenerative neurological diagnoses (CVA, Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia) and cognitive-impairment. As a graduate student, she gained experience in accent modification and aphasia groups.
Currently Sara is a full time speech-language pathologist in a specialized school and works per diem in an inpatient acute care hospital.
- Sara is a member of the New Jersey Speech, Language and Hearing Association (NJSHA)
- Sara is trained in Beckman Oral Motor Evaluation and Treatment Protocol
- Sara is trained in DIR & DIR Floortime (DIR 101)
- Sara is certified in Eswallow NMES (Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation)
- Sara is certified in LSVT LOUD (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment)
- Sara is certified to administer the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment)
Email: Sara@gabandgospeech.com
Marjorie Csatari
Email: Marjorie@gabandgospeech.com
