Amanda Tuckman, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD

Amanda Tuckman, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, is a speech-language pathologist in the Gund Learning and Diagnostic Center at the Child Mind Institute. She has several years of experience providing assessments and treatment for communication disorders in both school and home-based settings. Tuckman has worked extensively with children with autism, speech sound disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, expressive and receptive language delays, social communication challenges, fluency disorders, and complex communication needs.

Before joining the Child Mind Institute, Tuckman worked in a variety of settings, including a private school, developmental preschool, and charter school, where she provided therapy and conducted evaluations for children with diverse communication needs. She established her own private practice, where she delivered individualized therapy, parent coaching, and dynamic evaluations tailored to each child’s strengths and challenges. Across these roles, she provided one-on-one and small-group therapy and also created home-based programs to support skill carryover and functional progress.

As a compassionate and collaborative clinician, Tuckman believes that meaningful progress comes from individualized, evidence-based intervention paired with strong family involvement. She prioritizes building functional communication skills that empower children to succeed academically, socially, and at home. Her approach is strengths-based, working to highlight each child’s unique abilities while targeting areas of growth through motivating activities. In June 2025, Tuckman began her doctoral studies in speech-language pathology at Northwestern University.

• Speech-Language Pathologist, Gillen Brewer School
• Founder/Speech-Language Pathologist, Ez-Speech Therapy
• Speech-Language Pathologist, Look Who’s Talking
• Speech-Language Pathologist, Central Park Early Learning Center
• Clinical Fellow, Classical Charter School

• PROMPT (Prompts for Reconstructing Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)
• Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) for Childhood Apraxia of Speech
• Parent-Child Interactive Therapy for Selective Mutism (PCIT-SM)
• Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
• TalkTools Horns: Fun & Effective
• Sounds In Motion

• MA, Speech-Language Pathology, Hofstra University
• BA, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Promises and Pitfalls of Machine Scoring of the Index of Productive Syntax Research Assistant
• Little Listeners Research Lab Assistant