Our Staff

We would like to introduce you to the ITS staff. Each team member of ITS strives to foster a professional and comfortable relationship with our clients and their families. Please take the time to read about us. If you need more information, feel free to send us an email or call our office.

Uduak Osom

Uduak (Udie) Osom holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology from San Jose State University. Licensed in California, she is a certified member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a member of the California Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Udie has worked with children for more than 19 years and draws upon her extensive background, when making clinical decisions. Her experience as an early/preschool teacher has afforded her the expertise of understanding typical developmental milestones. Udie’s speech pathology career spanned from the public schools, private clinics and Children’s Hospital Oakland. She has carried out extensive research and conducted numerous seminars in her area of expertise: feeding, oral motor function and social language. Her passion for understanding speech and language problems has led her to research, develop programs, and open a clinical practice that helps children and families. Her hope is that her clinic will help children and young adults with developmental disabilities learn, progress, and become happy and functional members of our society.

In Udie’s extensive work with children and young adults, she identified a huge gap in services available for children with speech and language problems. At the time, there were few or no programs to assist children with speech and language problems in learning successful social skills. In an effort to help children with disabilities to more easily integrate into social situations, Udie developed the Paired Pragmatic Language Program (PPLP) in 2000. The PPLP stands apart as a social skill program because children with disabilities work with typical peers as their communication partner, while immersed in real-life situations in the community.  The program helps typical peers learn tolerance and understanding, and allows the children with social communication language disorders (e.g. ASD, ADD, Downs Syndrome and other social cognitive language disorder) to practice social interaction in functional daily situations. This program has helped numerous families transition their children more successfully into functional social situations.

Udie has recruited exceptional Speech and Language Pathologists for her private practice, Innovative Therapy Services. The staff at Innovative Therapy Services share Udie’s technical expertise and philosophical commitment to helping children and families with language disabilities to thrive. Her practice holds regular Round Table meetings to review strategize and optimize treatment plans for all the clients. Udie continues to be actively involved with all her clients by meeting with parents, observing clients within the clinic and off site when necessary.

Liz Hoshiko

Liz has been with Innovative Therapy Services since 2007. She interned at the clinic in 2006, and knew right away that this was a great source for her professional growth and the perfect fit for her personality. Prior to joining Innovative Therapy Services, Liz served elementary children in school districts for 4 years and also had the benefit of working for 2 years as a speech pathologist in the Philippines.

Liz received a Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology from the University of the Philippines at Manila and a Master of Arts in Speech Pathology from San Jose State University. She has the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP).Liz is also a member of the California Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CSHA) and holds a license to practice Speech Pathology in the state of California.

Liz draws from extensive experience in private practice, outpatient clinics, community based rehab, and the public schools to provide functional therapy for children. Her background in these settings gave her the opportunity to work with children diagnosed with ASD, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and ADD/ADHD. Liz has a special interest in working with children who have deficits in play, pragmatics, and oral-motor disorders. She is bilingual in English and Tagalog.

Liz believes in providing therapy that is meaningful to the child and family, enhancing communication in everyday-life. She creates motivating therapy activities for children of all ages in a patient and gentle manner.
 

Belen Morales

Belen Morales is an enthusiastic, motivated speech pathology CF. Prior to joining ITS she worked for two years in a private clinic providing speech-language therapy treatment for children with speech-language related disorders. Along with her extensive educational background, working in a small clinic provided Belen a much desired opportunity to work with children diagnosed with  Autism Spectrum Disorders, Articulation Disorders and Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). Her passion is in working with children with “CAS,” and other “speech- and language disorders.” Belen is fluent in Spanish. Belen received her Master’s of Science (M.S.) in speech pathology from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She is licensed to practice in the state of California and she is a member of ASHA.

Belen believes in fostering a child's social emotional well being, along with teaching meaningful functional speech and language therapy. She is very creative and works very hard to keep her clients interested in learning those things that may at first appear very challenging.

 

Trudy Kroll

Trudy was born in Redwood City and grew up in the Santa Clara Valley. In addition to her responsibilities at Innovative Therapy Services, she volunteers at her church (Santa Clara First Baptist Church) and occasionally spends time in downtown San Jose at the EHC (Emergency Housing Consortium) feeding the homeless. Trudy owns two beautiful cats: Gwendolyn Marie who is 5 years old and Rocco Monroe who is 3 years old.

Trudy joined ITS in September of 2007 as their Office Manager. She brings with her several years of experience in the medical field. She has worked in a private physician's back-office, a medical lab, and a pharmacy.

In her spare time Trudy enjoys working in the yard, playing volleyball on the church team, watching sports, learning to play golf, swimming, and spending time with her friends and family.