OLIVIA NIKITICH

Carthage Area Hospital has added speech-language pathologist, OLIVIA NIKITICH to its therapy services staff at Carthage Therapy Services, 1001 West St., Carthage. She is an ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist from Croghan. Nikitich has clinical experience in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals, short-term rehab centers, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, and early intervention, and she is passionate about providing functional, personalized, evidence-based speech-language therapy services to the residents of our local communities. Her areas of expertise are in developmental and acquired language disorders, developmental and acquired articulation disorders, fluency (stuttering) disorders, social-pragmatic communication disorders, and cognitive communication disorders. Nikitich received her bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and disorders and her master’s degree in speech-language pathology, both from Syracuse University. She holds a permanent teacher of students with speech and language disabilities (TSSLD) certificate for New York State schools.