Aviva Moss is a speech-language pathologist with 14 years of experience evaluating and treating children from infancy through adolescence. Aviva earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics with honors from Dartmouth College and her Master of Science degree in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at New York University.

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Aviva has trained and practiced in a variety of settings including hospitals, outpatient pediatric clinics, specialized schools, public schools, preschools, and in individual homes. In her private practice, she  treats children with a variety of speech, language, and feeding needs. Her practice areas include autism/PDD, childhood apraxia of speech, feeding disorders, cleft-palate, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, motor speech disorders, expressive and receptive language delays, fluency disorders, social language deficits, and reading disorders. Prior to starting a private practice, Aviva was a supervising senior speech-language pathologist for a New York City pilot inclusion program for children with motor speech disorders. She served as the primary assistive technology consultant and coordinated all alternative and augmentative communication support. In all of her positions, Aviva has valued working on multidisciplinary teams to best meet the needs of the whole child. She regularly consults with psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, behaviorists, physicians, and teachers. 

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In addition to her clinical work, Aviva has maintained involvement in research. She was a research fellow in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at New York University where she studied speech motor development and motor speech disorders. Aviva's research on Childhood Apraxia of Speech was the recipient of an award from the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU. Her  research has been published in Stroke, Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and she has presented at national and international conferences. Her masters thesis on recovery from aphasia received an award from the Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders Special Interest Group of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association. Aviva has served as peer reviewer for  Stroke and has sat on the submission review committee of the Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders Special Interest Group of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association. 

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Aviva is licensed by the State of California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board. She has held the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association since 2004. 

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