Jana is a Speech-Language Pathologist with the Toronto District School Board. She works directly with students completing language and literacy assessments and running intervention groups. Part of her role includes collaborative work with the TDSB’s Early Years Department in developing and delivering professional learning to system senior teams, school administrators, educators, and parents in the areas of language and literacy development, assessment, instruction, and intervention.

Jana holds an appointment with the University of Toronto where she teaches an undergraduate course, Reading and Literacy Disorders, and co-teaches in a graduate course, School Age Language Intervention. She is the co-author of Oral Language at Your Fingertips and the author and instructor of the Accredited Continued Education Course, Advanced Literacy Practices, for Speech-Language Pathologists.