Fern Westernoff
Toronto District School Board
Speech-Language Patholgoist
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fern Westernoff is a speech-language pathologist with over 30 years of experience at the Toronto District School Board. She served on the Immigrant Assessment Team, and co-instructed in the Kindergarten Early Language Intervention (KELI) Program, where she was also a co-program leader supporting the development of the program. Fern has presented in Canada, the U.S. and Israel regarding cultural and linguistic diversity and communication disorders. With many publications to her name, her most recent work is the Home Oral Language Activities (HOLA) Program, a book bag program designed to help parents use the home language to support the academic progress of their young children.