Luciano Valles, Jr.
M.S., CCC-SLP, Owner
Bilingual SLP Evaluator/Consultant
Luciano Valles, Jr. is a nationally certified bilingual speech-language pathologist (SLP). He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech-language and hearing disorders from UT El Paso and a Master of Science degree in communication pathology – bilingual sequence from Texas Christian University. Mr. Valles completed 68 credits of doctoral level course work at Temple University in speech-language science, educational psychology, special education, and rhetoric and communication. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at UMass-Amherst, Elms College, and UT Rio Grande Valley.
Mr. Valles has extensive experience as a certified director/supervisor of speech-language, hearing and language learning disability (LLD) services and as a bilingual speech-language pathologist in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida. He hired SLPs and SLP assistants and developed programmatic systems for speech-language, hearing, and LLD services for a large school system in Massachusetts. The programmatic systems involved legal matters in special education, tiered instruction, and specialized instruction for non-disabled and disabled English speaking students and students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in public and private school settings.
Currently, Mr. Valles is an entrepreneur and founder/owner of Bilingual SLP Evaluator/Consultant. He works with public and private schools and districts, teachers, SLPs, psychologists, and SLP agencies in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Florida. His work focuses on testing English language learners to determine: a) if students are typically developing English and literacy skills as a second language and require tiered instruction without the need for speech-language services, b) if students have a communication disability in their primary language or both languages and require speech-language services, c) what kind of support and consultation teachers and SLPs need in the schools to help disabled and non-disabled English language learners succeed academically and socially.