Welcome to Island Wide Speech
Island Wide Speech is an auditory, speech and language private practice with experience in working with children and adults with a variety of disorders, diagnoses, difficulties, and differences. We offer a wide range of services that enable children and adults to maximize their full potential and become successful communicators at home, in school, at work, and in their community.
Best of Long Island
We are honored to be named the Best of Long Island’s Speech-Language Pathologist for the fifth time! Island Wide Speech has won in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024 and nominated in 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026. Thank you for your ongoing support!
Frequently Asked Questions
Island Wide Speech is centrally located on Long Island, NY. We provide onsite, mobile in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and telehealth sessions.
Island Wide Speech treats all ages, including infancy, toddlerhood, pre-school, school-age, preteens, teens, and adults. We've seen clients from 3 weeks old to 103 years young.
Island Wide Speech offers individual and group therapy sessions across a variety of disorders, difficulties, diagnoses, differences, and age groups.
Island Wide Speech is committed to providing the best services available including individual and group treatment plans that emphasize family education to enhance auditory, speech, language, and pragmatic development. This family centered approach to treatment includes the caregiver being directly involved in the assessment, development, and implementation of goals and continued success.
What people are saying about us...
Fara was the most effective and consistent resource for our son, who was born with bilateral hearing loss. For the years of their working relationship, Fara dedicated hours to our son every week, both in an individual and a group environment. She worked to prepare him for a mainstream school and life, which was our goal for him. She was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about her work, while being kind to both us and our son. Fara found ways to communicate with us and our son's primary caregiver to enable us to integrate and reinforce their face-to-face work through specific directed activities in our home. We wholeheartedly believe that her pro-active, determined approach with our son is a key contributor to the fact that he no longer qualifies for speech therapy services through the Department of Education as his verbal skills, language and articulation are at least a year ahead of his peers. Most importantly in our view, Fara taught our son a sense of independence and pride when it came to explaining his hearing loss, maintaining his aids and being his own advocate as it pertains to his hearing needs. We highly recommend her to anyone with speech therapy needs." - Erik & Shannah, Parents of 7 year old 
My children, now 4 and 7, were born with profound hearing loss. They hear with cochlear implants and are thriving in the mainstream due, in a large part, to a team of extraordinary people like Fara. Fara provided speech services for my children in the individual and group setting. She was instrumental in their language and social development. Fara is creative yet very effective at establishing boundaries. She is dedicated to the kids 110% and always had activity ideas to keep speech fun. My kids have very different personalities, but she engaged both of them and worked with very different strengths and weaknesses." - Lisa, Mother of 4 year old and 7 year old 
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Fara and Lily who spent the last 20 months providing speech therapy for my son Connor. When my son was starting kindergarten, I began to question whether he had some speech needs. As we worked to get services in the school system, I felt a bit guilty that I had not noticed this sooner. I decided to start services on our own while we waited for the school situation to get sorted out. When I first contacted Fara, her compassionate and professional manner completely put me at ease. My son, who is shy and can be a bit anxious in new situations, felt comfortable with Fara right from the start due to her kind and friendly demeanor. She made learning fun and within a few months I began to notice improvements with Connor's articulation. We loved Island Wide Speech so much that we decided to continue his therapy there even once he started school speech services. When Lily took over Connor's sessions, we felt the same warmth and understanding as we did previously. Lily is passionate, knowledgeable and optimistic. She provided Connor with positive feedback and always clearly communicated with me regarding Connor's progress and goals that we needed to work on together. I am eternally grateful to Island Wide Speech and am proud of my speech "graduate"! I highly recommend this practice to anyone who is seeking speech therapy services!"
- Christina, Mother of 7 year old 
Ms. Fara has been my daughter's speech therapist, best friend and confidante. We are so blessed to have had Ms. Fara as part of Paige's growing and blossoming years. She has greatly assisted Paige further her strengths, stimulated and worked on overcoming her weaknesses as well. Most importantly, Ms. Fara always boosts Paige's self-worth, esteem and confidence which for anyone is PRICELESS! She is truly a blessing and heaven-sent to our family!" - Noemi, Mother of 13 year old 
We want to extend our thanks to Fara and Alex for helping my daughter with her Vocal Cord Dysfunction. My daughter, Jillian, had been misdiagnosed for over 2 years. With the help of Island Wide Speech and a new ENT, my daughter is finally feeling better and her disorder has finally become manageable. Thank you for all your help. I have already given Island Wide Speech as a referral to other family and friends so that they can also get the help they need to feel better too."
- Toni Ann, Mother of 14 year old We currently accept private pay and participate with the following insurance providers:
Island Wide Speech · fara@islandwidespeech.com · (516) 415-2751 · Plainview, NY