Brenda Bliss, M.S., CCC-SLP/A, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a dually certified speech/language pathologist and audiologist and a LSLS Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist (AVT). She is the director of Bliss Speech and Hearing Services, Inc., and has provided speech/language therapy services and auditory verbal therapy services to a wide variety of children and adults in her well-established private practice in Dallas, Texas for over 30 years.
Ms. Bliss graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in communication disorders. She pursued a double master’s degree in speech/language pathology and audiology graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas, The Callier Center for Communication Disorders. Following her formal schooling in speech/language pathology, Ms. Bliss completed her fellowship years at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, California serving on the cochlear implant team where she trained directly under Dr. William House, who pioneered the first single channel cochlear implant device.
Ms. Bliss is internationally recognized in the field of hearing impairment, promoting auditory-verbal therapy services and providing intervention to children across the world. She has led workshops in both Europe and Asia training local speech/language pathologists and audiologists and working with deaf and hard of hearing children to provide therapists and parents with tools to help them develop spoken language. At Bliss Speech and Hearing Services, Ms. Bliss believes that individualized speech and language therapy plans are essential and necessary and should be developed through careful assessment and observation along with obtaining input from the parents who remain involved in each speech therapy session. The goal is to provide the tools necessary for each and every child and adult enabling the patient to achieve their potential and become the best communicator possible.
