Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC-SLP leads the team at Schneider Speech (personalized speech therapy in-office and online); guides the Transcending Stuttering community; and serves on faculty at the University of California at Riverside School of Medicine.
Uri is recognized as a leading clinician, educator, researcher and innovator.
Clinically, Uri specializes in stuttering, voice, learning and speech improvement; working with parents, preschool children, school-age young people, teens and adults. He has helped hundreds of people achieve their goals in the face of stuttering, voice problems, learning issues (including dyslexia, ADHD, language learning issues, Executive Functioning, Asperger’s Syndrome, Auditory Processing Disorder and more).
Uri publishes articles, presents seminars and workshops around the world, hosts the Transcending Stuttering podcast and co-produced two documentaries “Transcending Stuttering: The Inside Story” and “Going with the Flow: A Guide to Transcending Stuttering.” He is an active member of local, national and international professional organizations (ASHA, Special Interest Divisions for Fluency and Voice, NSA, SFA, NYSSLHA, LISHA, NYC Voice Group, ISHLA and AMBI). Uri serves on the leadership board of several non-profits including Different & Able, Health Advisory Committee of Worldwide B’Above Headstart and volunteers with many others.
Uri’s work experience includes an array of opportunities, including; corporate communication and media training at Virgil Scudder & Associates, speaker development at Nefesh b’Nefesh, speech-language therapy and consulting for the New York City Department of Education, voice therapy at MEETH at Lenox Hill hospital, speech-language therapy at the Summit School; educational consulting and educational development at Netiv Aryeh, Jerusalem, podcasting at Transcending Stuttering and producing films and social media campaigns @schneiderspeech
Uri received his BA in Linguistics and Communication Disorders and Business, and his MA in Speech-Language Pathology from Queens College, CUNY. He graduated Magna Cum Laude, and he was awarded the prestigious Mitsui USA Scholarship. He also received rabbinical ordination at Beis Medrash L’Talmud.
Uri is a runner, loves to breath-in the outdoors, and most of all, he enjoys spending time with his family (wife and kids). His most celebrated and rewarding role in life is being a dad to four incredible young people.
Uri Schneider financial disclosures: Uri is the owner/founder of Transcending Stuttering and the director of Schneider Speech. Uri Schneider non-financial disclosures: Uri is a faculty member at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.