Simone Bellot, M.S. CCC-SLP

Licensed by the Bahamas Health Professions Council as a speech-language pathologist, providing speech, language, feeding and swallowing services across the lifespan.

Simone serves as Clinical Director of Bahamas Speech and Language Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Science with majors in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Neuroscience from Syracuse University, and a Master of Science in Speech, Language and Learning from Northwestern University, where she is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology.

She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) awarded by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her clinical background spans pediatric and adult care in hospital, outpatient and school-based settings in Chicago and Miami, including diagnostic evaluation and treatment of speech, language, voice, AAC, and feeding and swallowing disorders.

Simone's research on language development in Bahamian Creole English-speaking children has been presented nationally in the United States and published in ASHA's Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing in the United States.