About Us
Who We Are
Philip Schnipper, CCC-SLP, Creator of BBB forLearning
Speech Pathologist, Brain-based Learning Strategist, Reading Specialist
He received his M.S in Speech Pathology and Audiology from State University of New York at Albany. He then earned a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design from University of Massachusetts at Boston as well as a Masters of Education in Reading from Salem State College.
Philip has over twenty-five years of experience in speech pathology. He has held various administrative positions in the field such as the director of a speech clinic and as the director of the speech department in a rehabilitation facility. He has worked in a multitude of settings including hospitals and public schools. He also has vast experience working in home care and nursing homes.
Philip has spent the past twelve years researching the brain and how it learns. His extensive knowledge on the process of learning has enabled him to develop a new way to teach the brain to learn. He has mentored both teachers and parents on how to use this new brain-based program to help students learn how to learn.
Speech Pathologist, Brain-based Learning Strategist, Reading Specialist
He received his M.S in Speech Pathology and Audiology from State University of New York at Albany. He then earned a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design from University of Massachusetts at Boston as well as a Masters of Education in Reading from Salem State College.
Philip has over twenty-five years of experience in speech pathology. He has held various administrative positions in the field such as the director of a speech clinic and as the director of the speech department in a rehabilitation facility. He has worked in a multitude of settings including hospitals and public schools. He also has vast experience working in home care and nursing homes.
Philip has spent the past twelve years researching the brain and how it learns. His extensive knowledge on the process of learning has enabled him to develop a new way to teach the brain to learn. He has mentored both teachers and parents on how to use this new brain-based program to help students learn how to learn.
The Creation of BBBforLearning
As a speech pathologist, I have had the opportunity of working in schools that followed a model of inclusion whereby I was able to conduct my lessons within the classroom in a co-teaching format. In spending more time within the classroom, I was able to get a better understanding as to why students with learning difficulties had problems in completing many of the assigned tasks. Many of these students did not possess a set of strategies or the language to support their learning which would be required to process and decode the information being presented to them. I felt many of the students had a greater potential to succeed than what they were able to demonstrate. I also felt that they would not have to struggle so much if there was a specific program that could support their learning so as to improve their ability to comprehend, process, and decode information with a greater degree of efficiency and speed.
My real concern was that these students would have great difficulty later in their academic careers, particularly when they reached the middle and high school levels. Teachers in middle and high school would expect their students to have already acquired the necessary skills to enable them to be more confident and independent learners. If not, they will continually struggle to catch up to their peers and many caught in this abyss will fall further behind, and some will give up and eventually drop out of school.
My interest in how the brain learns came from my many years of working with patients at hospitals and nursing homes. I found that many of the patients, who were post stroke, displayed learning difficulties similar to my learning disabled students. This fueled my interest in wanting to find out if Learning Disabilities was a neurological disorder. My research confirmed my suspicion which led me to design a brain based program that teaches a specific language of learning which the brain is able to more easily process and understand. Before I could develop a program for these students I first needed to learn how the brain normally learns. I also wanted to find out the reason why these students were struggling in their ability to learn and if their brain was working differently than their more successful peers.
Over the past 12 years, I have been researching the brain and how it learns. The research and my years of experience working with students led me to the development of the program Building Better Bridges for Learning. The program has proven to be very successful in instructing and developing the skills needed for students to start improving their comprehension skills in as little as one hour.
My real concern was that these students would have great difficulty later in their academic careers, particularly when they reached the middle and high school levels. Teachers in middle and high school would expect their students to have already acquired the necessary skills to enable them to be more confident and independent learners. If not, they will continually struggle to catch up to their peers and many caught in this abyss will fall further behind, and some will give up and eventually drop out of school.
My interest in how the brain learns came from my many years of working with patients at hospitals and nursing homes. I found that many of the patients, who were post stroke, displayed learning difficulties similar to my learning disabled students. This fueled my interest in wanting to find out if Learning Disabilities was a neurological disorder. My research confirmed my suspicion which led me to design a brain based program that teaches a specific language of learning which the brain is able to more easily process and understand. Before I could develop a program for these students I first needed to learn how the brain normally learns. I also wanted to find out the reason why these students were struggling in their ability to learn and if their brain was working differently than their more successful peers.
Over the past 12 years, I have been researching the brain and how it learns. The research and my years of experience working with students led me to the development of the program Building Better Bridges for Learning. The program has proven to be very successful in instructing and developing the skills needed for students to start improving their comprehension skills in as little as one hour.