As the firstborn of two immigrant parents, Spanish was my first language. I was born and educated in Queens, NY. I obtained a double BA in Communication Disorders and Black Studies with a minor in Linguistics. I went on to get my MS in Speech-Language Pathology at Teacher's College, Columbia University in May 2013. I am now a bilingual speech therapist in an elementary school in Queens. I worked after school two days a week in a response to intervention program that aimed to help students pro...