Emily R. Peluso

Emily R. Peluso

Emily R. Peluso is a school-based speech-language pathologist (SLP) at Mildred B. Moss Elementary School of Metuchen School District. She formerly worked as a school-based SLP for the Plainfield School District and First Children’s School. In addition to the school setting, she has experience working in the home setting through New Jersey Early Intervention Services for Children’s Specialized Hospital and the private practice setting at Reach for the Stars, LLC.

Since 2001, she has dedicated herself to practicing in this field, providing evaluation and treatment to children of different age groups, each with their unique speech and language requirements. She offers speech and language services tailored for preschool and kindergarten students, aiming to enhance their speech clarity as well as their receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language abilities.

Emily is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and maintains the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence. Continuously committed to learning, she received an Award for Continuing Education from ASHA in 2019 and 2020. In 2019–2020, she was named Educational Services Professional of the Year at Mildred B. Moss Elementary School. Emily has implemented meaningful child-directed services and worked collaboratively with colleagues and families to help students understand the power of communication.

With a focus on speech-language pathology, Emily received a bachelor’s degree in science from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, and a master’s degree in arts from Kean University in Union, New Jersey.