Having lived abroad for years gave me an extra understanding of the frustration that a language and/or speech problem causes. You want to say so much, but it doesn't come out (properly)! I therefore enjoy working with children and adults to maximise their potential. I have a great affinity with multilingualism, also because I myself raise my children bilingually. But I also enjoy helping people with TOS, OMFT, (phonological) articulation disorders and other problems!

My name is Nathalie Tilon, Dutch speech therapist living and working in Chile. In the Netherlands, after graduating, I worked with various groups in a speech therapy practice (language/speech problems, abnormal mouth habits and voice problems) and a care centre (aphasia, dysphagia and dysarthria).

Currently, besides being a speech therapist, I work as an English teacher at a Chilean school two mornings a week and on Saturdays as a Dutch teacher at the NTC school De Andes. I studied speech therapy because I love working with people, languages and communication. I was raised bilingual myself (Dutch/Spanish) and also speak English.

Here, I work as a speech and language therapist in three languages – Spanish, English and Dutch – and mainly with children who have language and/or speech difficulties. As an English teacher, I work at the school with primary-aged children and privately with adults. At the NTC school, I initially taught the upper primary class for three years and have now been teaching the nursery class for the past two years. As a speech and language therapist, this group is particularly interesting because we work on, amongst other things, oral language skills (vocabulary/word usage), phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle (sound awareness/recognising symbols and signs), as well as speaking fluently and clearly (forming sentences).

I am communicative, flexible and eager to learn. I have completed two post HBO courses in speech therapy in recent years; diploma in specific language disorders and diploma in special education. I also take regular refresher courses in Dutch school. My latest certificate was Becoming a Teacher, which was about class management.

What I like most about my job is that no two days are the same, I enjoy working with both children and adults, I work in the three languages I master and that also makes it varied. One of the most important skills is being able to communicate effectively, helping clients with this is the best thing there is.

I am Spanish and I am a graduate in Speech Therapy.

From an early age I was attracted to foreign languages and decided to leave Spain and live in England where I stayed for more than 5 years. In 2008 I moved to Brittany in France with my husband and this is where I currently live now.

Moving to two new countries allowed me to learn English and French fluently and today I have two children, aged 9 and 7, who are trilingual. We use all three languages every day. The children speak English with their father, Spanish with me and French at school and with their neighbours and friends.

I am very happy with my personal journey, because it has given me a very good insight into the challenges that patients encounter whilst communicating.

I love working with both children and adults. The satisfaction of successfully supporting a client to resolve their difficulties in communicating by speech or written word; and seeing the quality of their lives improve after such a life changing event as a stroke or neurological disease is what motivates me.

We all have the right to speech therapy support that will help us to continue living our lives happily and fully with our friends , family and local communities.

A good speech therapist is patient and has the ability to listen to a person in their entirety. In other words, he is able to understand and study all linguistic and communicative aspects of his language as a whole. For example, body language is closely related to breathing, but also to a person's voice and speech. Some disorders, such as stuttering or voice disorders, sometimes find their causes in psychological disorders.

The speech therapist must pay attention to all these points in order to make a correct diagnosis. In addition, the ability to empathize with the patient is very important in order to find together the best therapy adapted to the patient's needs.

My professional and personal experience has allowed me to develop and improve all these human qualities which are very important for my work as a speech therapist.

The profession of speech therapy allows us to work with many different people, of different ages, who have communication problems due to multiple disorders and pathologies, whether organic (cleft lip or palate) or functional or neurological.

I have worked with French speech therapists in:
- The hospital environment: (diagnosis and treatment of myo-functional disorders or swallowing disorders, laryngectomies, aphasic disorders and disorders of voice, speech and language in neurodegenerative diseases);
- Re-educational centres (treating autism and intellectual disability)
- Private practice (treating oral and written language disorders).

I am highly motivated because I now have the opportunity to work professionally in Spanish and French with TinyEYE and to be in touch with more people and make speech therapy online reachable to all.

Hola, Me llamo Ada Martín.

Soy andorrana y estoy Graduada en Logopedia. En el 2012 empecé la carrera en la Universidad de Manresa (Barcelona), la cual me demoró 4 años en terminarla. En estos cuatro años hice las prácticas en el "Institut Guttman", un centro de neurorehabilitación muy famoso y bien valorado a nivel europeo. Y terminé mi último año de carrera a Portugal, a ESSA (Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão) A los 21 años, recién graduada, me volví a Andorra a trabajar. Estaba en un gabinete privado y también en una escuela de educación especial. En el 2022 decidí dejar el gabinete y la escuela para hacer logopedia en línea mientras viajo por el mundo. En estos años de profesión he trabajado tanto con adultos como en niños en todo tipo de patologías. Entre el 2018 y el 2019 me formé más específicamente en los trastornos de los sonidos del habla y en la respiración y masticación. Y en el 2017 realicé un curso de PECS, el cual es un sistema alternativo y aumentativo de la comunicación que se basa en el intercambio.

Realmente trabajar de logopeda me llena de satisfacción, ya que la comunicación es fundamental y cuando está bien integrada, la calidad de vida de las personas mejora, y por lo tanto, también mejoran aspectos psicológicos como la autoestima, la felicidad, etc. A mí me gusta hacer sesiones individuales y personalizadas para cada persona. Buscando los puntos de interés de cada uno para hacer las sesiones dinámicas y productivas.

Siempre me esfuerzo para tener buenos resultados.

Por último, comentar que al ser de Andorra puedo hacer la rehabilitación tanto en ESPAÑOL COMO EN CATALÁN.