Screening Program & School Services

School Services 

NOSHC offers screenings and ongoing therapy at the following schools.

 Meet the NOSHC Therapist at your School 

 Ongoing Therapy Services:

  (click on the school to meet the NOSHC lead therapist)

Academy Of The Sacred Heart (Michelle D. Davis)

Arden Cahill Academy (Ashley Becher) 

Cathedral Montessori School (Susan Stouder)

Bright School for the Deaf (Leslie Bass)

Good Shepherd School (Ellen Korman & Holly Neel)

Green Trees at Isidore Newman School  (Julie Tortorich & Ashley Becher)

Holy Name of Jesus School (Julie Tortorich & Brittany Costello)

Isidore Newman School (Julie Tortorich)

Jewish Community Center Uptown (JCC-Uptown) (Sophie Sercovich)

Louise S. McGehee School  (Julie Tortorich)

Louise S. McGehee's Little Gate  (Julie Tortorich & Gretchen Milesi)

Metairie Park Country Day (Laura Harwood)

St. Andrew's Episcopal (Brittany Costello)

St. Paul's Episcopal School (Michelle D. Davis)

St. Francis Xavier School (Taylor Huntley & Laura Harwood)

Explanation of Screening Results

An evaluation may be recommended for your child because…

Articulation/ Speech – Your child may have mispronounced sounds in words or conversation. Misarticulations may or may not be age/developmentally appropriate. Articulation skills develop along a continuum, as do a child’s motor skills. An evaluation will determine if therapy is warranted.

Voice – Your child may have presented with a deep, hoarse, and raspy voice, pitch breaks, and visible neck tension when speaking. We also checked if loudness and pitch are age appropriate. Vocal abuse can cause damage to the vocal cords.

Fluency – Your child may have exhibited signs of stuttering, such as sound or word repetitions or prolongations.

Language – In this portion of the screening clinicians assess a child’s ability to comprehend & produce spoken language.

Language Comprehension – Your child may have had difficulty following directions, understanding, sentence structure, repeating sentences or had problems with spatial, temporal, or descriptive concepts.

Language Production – Your child may have experienced difficulty labeling objects, describing pictures, answering questions appropriately, and relating information in a sequential and cohesive manner, using age-appropriate grammar & sentence structure.

Hearing – Determines if the child’s hearing sensitivity is within normal limits and if there is any possible middle ear dysfunction.

Tympanometry –Your child may have exhibited signs & symptoms consistent with possible middle ear fluid or middle ear dysfunction.

Pure Tone – Your child may not have responded to tones presented through headphones or your child’s ability to respond may have been impacted by the results of the tympanometry. If your child had fluid in the middle ear, it may have made it more difficult to respond to the tones presented. Therefore, the child’s hearing should be rescreened following medical intervention.

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) – If your child is under 3 years, or could not be conditioned to respond on the pure tone screening, the OAE, which evaluates cochlear functioning may have indicated the need for further testing.

Vision – PlusOptix Vision Machine was used to screen your child.   

CNT – Could Not Test - means your child could not be conditioned or trained to respond, possibly due to crying and no results were obtained.

DNS – Did Not Screen - means screening was not conducted due to age limitations or parent or school request.