Meet our Program Leads for Tuesday Playhouse Pals

GiGi’s Playhouse Tampa is offering Playhouse Pals for our participants between the ages of 4-10, a few times a week.   On Tuesdays from 6:30pm-7:30pm we will be offering Playhouse Pals directed by our Program Leads from All About Speech and Language, a Tampa based therapy group. 

We are so fortunate to have such incredible expertise donating their time in order to provide no-cost programming in our Playhouse in Playhouse Pals.  Get ready for some fun while working on fine motor skills, socialization, speech and language.

Brieann Yimoyines Papp, M.S., CCC-SLP

Brieann is the Co-Founder of All About Speech & Language, alongside her sister and colleague Alicia Yimoyines, M.S. CCC-SLP. They are also founders of the Socialights program, the first social group in Tampa Bay co-lead by speech-language pathologists and licensed occupational therapists.

Brieann attended Boston University for her Master of Science degree (M.S.) in Speech-Language Pathology. Her Bachelor of Art (B.A.) is in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Florida.

Brieann is trained in PROMPT technique, Interactive Metronome, DIR/Floortime, Lindamood Bell and Orton Gillingham reading instruction, TLC Lively Letters, and PEERS social skill instruction. She incorporates principles from Verbal Behavior Therapy and Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) into her work, after training under licensed therapists trained in these two different therapeutic interventions.

Brieann takes great pleasure in working with the pediatric population. With a genuine love and empathetic concern for her clients and their families, Brieann believes in supporting each child, as a team, throughout every life stage; celebrating each milestone, while building a variety of skills necessary to prosper in the clinic, at home, at school, and in the community. Furthermore, it is especially important to Brieann and her colleagues to teach the necessary life skills to foster personal growth and independence for their clients to subsequently live, work, and become part of their own community.

In her spare time Brieann can be found spending time with her husband, family, and friends, traveling, running and kayaking, and enjoying the sunny Florida weather!

                                                                               Alicia Yimoyines Martinez, M.S. CCC-SLP

Alicia is Co-Founder of All About Speech & Language, along with her sister and colleague Brieann Yimoyines . They are also founders of the Socialights Program, the first social group in Tampa Bay co-lead by speech-language pathologists and licensed occupational therapists.

Alicia attended Boston University for her Master of Science degree (M.S.) in Speech-Language Pathology and the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Obtaining ongoing educational opportunities and implementing evidence-based treatment is at the core of the AASL team. Alicia utilizes her various trainings to grow and support the students she works with from infancy through early adulthood. She is an Interactive Metronome (IM) certified trainer in the clinic as well as an IM Home provider. She holds a passion for reading instruction and is an Orton Gillingham, TLC Lively Letters, as well as Lindamood Bell Seeing Stars and LiPS trained provider to incorporate these highly-effective, multi-sensory reading approaches into her client’s intervention programs. She too, is trained in PROMPT technique for speech elicitation and PEERS for adolescent social skill instruction, as well as incorporates principles of Verbal Behavior Therapy into her work. She is experienced working with children and adults who stutter, in both individual and group settings.

Alicia is enthusiastic to work with clients of all ages, profiles, and abilities, addressing their “whole body” needs through interdisciplinary consideration and collaboration. Guiding her therapy is the commitment to establish trusting and open relationships with both clients and their families, and to continuously work together to meet each client’s and family’s unique needs, bridging the gap from the therapy room into the home and community. Alicia infuses great passion and sincere love and care into her work and toward each individual client she serves. She considers it a privilege to be a part of each of her clients’ lives, successes, and journeys ahead.

When not fulfilling her role as a speech-language therapist, she can be found spending time with her family and friends, taking photographs of the beauty around her, or spending time at the water fishing or kayaking.