Eleanor Martino Voice and Speech

Due to the arrival of a long-awaited new addition to our family, and our upcoming move, the office is now closed. I am happy to provide rederral information or answer general questions by phone or email. Thank you to everyone who supported my private practice!

ELEANOR MARTINO, MA, CCC-SLP, CMVT

Speech Pathologist, Voice Therapist, Singer

Eleanor Martino is a speech-language pathologist with specialized training as a voice therapist and singer. She is also certified in the McClosky Voice Technique, a method which helped her recover her own speaking and singing voice.

With her clinical knowledge of the normal and disordered voice, training in vocal performance and vocal pedagogy, extensive continuing education and personal experience recovering from a voice disorder, Eleanor uses a comprehensive approach to restore, free, train and preserve the voice.

Eleanor received her Master's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has worked with a wide range of speech, language, voice, and feeding/swallowing disorders across all ages in hospital, clinic, home health, early intervention, assisted living, skilled nursing and school settings. She has lived in Virginia since 2004, and began her career in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

Education:

Northwestern University, M.A. Speech Pathology
University of Notre Dame, B.A. Music - Vocal Performance
Shenandoah University Conservatory - Completed graduate/post-graduate level courses in Vocal Pedagogy

Associations:

ASHA certified (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Licensed in Virginia
Member AAPPSPA (American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology)
Member VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association)
Affiliate member NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), member VANATS

Certifications/Trainings:

Voice:

Certified in the McClosky Voice Technique
Certified in LSVT (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, for Parkinson Disease and related disorders)
Trained in Laryngovideoendostroboscopy (Vanderbilt University Voice Center, KayPENTAX, Northwestern University)
Trained in Laryngeal Function Testing/Acoustic and Aerodynamic Measures (KayPENTAX, Northwestern University)
Completed Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy training (Katherine Verdolini)

Speech:

Certified in Beckman Oral Motor Therapy
Trained in PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)

Eleanor has received an ASHA ACE award for completing extensive continuing education in topics including Pediatric Feeding Disorders, Autism, Apraxia, Auditory Processing Disorders, the Lessac Voice Method, Estill Voice Training, and Joan Melton's Speaking and Singing with the Same Voice.

She is a student of Fitzmaurice Voicework and the Alexander Technique.