Speech Pathologist, San Francisco Bay Area

Ruth has been working as a speech pathologist and language and speech therapist for over thirty years. Prior to being a speech-language pathologist, she worked as an elementary school music teacher and taught high school English and French.

She has been a clinical educator at San Francisco State University, where she taught and supervised graduate students and ran the general child language clinic, general adult speech and language clinic, and assessment clinic. Currently, she sees adults and children in her private practice, and provides both tele-therapy and in-person therapy.

Ruth works with clients from age two-and-a-half through adulthood, and has worked in a variety of settings, including special education administration. In addition to her private practice, she has worked with at-risk high school students and preschool students in schools. Prior to that, she was the Director of Speech Services at the Hearing and Speech Center in San Francisco, a non-profit serving the Bay Area.  She has also worked with students with learning disabilities and reading problems.

She has some fluency in German and Hebrew, as well as considerable fluency in French. In her spare time, Ruth enjoys spending time with her adult children, and grandchildren and loves music, plays piano, and enjoys baking, hiking, and exercise.

Speech Language Pathology Specialties:

• Phonology/Articulation

• Language delays/disorders

• Stuttering

• Voice

• Accent modification

• Motor Speech

• Apraxia

• Auditory processing

• Pragmatic/social language disorders

• Childhood apraxia of speech

• Tongue thrust

• Auditory processing disorders

• General Communication

Ruth is certified and licensed  for individualized treatment, fluency, motor speech, articulation, and phonology for both adults and children.

To learn more or schedule a consultation, please email rdonig@rwhitesf.com and/or call (415) 225-6152.