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Valerie Lew(she/her)

Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist

Stanford Speech & Cognitive Development Lab · Stanford University

Valerie Lew, M.S., CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist at the UCLA Speech Clinic. She has worked for the UCLA outpatient clinic and inpatient hospital for the past 9 years and is the lead SLP on the UCLA Cochlear Implant Team. She earned her bachelor's degree and master's of science in speech-language pathology with an emphasis in bilingual speech-language pathology at Texas Christian University. Her passion for working with children who are d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing and their families began in college, when she worked at the John Tracy Clinic and the Texas Hearing Institute. She is currently working towards her Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist (LSLS, Cert. AVT) certification and is the AG Bell 2024 Doreen Pollack LSLS Cert. AVT Scholar. Her specialty interests include working with children who are d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing with congenital CMV, single-sided deafness, and/or from bilingual/multilingual families. She has lived in Madrid and Sevilla, Spain but is a true southern California native who loves Dodger baseball.