Jackie Van Lankveld is a clinical Manager at Niagara Children’s Centre where she has worked for 31 years and is a part-time clinical instructor at Brock University in the department of Applied Linguistics for the past 22 years. She is a Speech Language Pathologist by profession and has been an SLP consult to the Canadian Pediatric Society for many years related to matters of early language, literacy, 18 month well baby visit and screen time. She has co-authored multiple publications on early literacy and has presented nationally and internationally and is a proud member of the Rotary club of St. Catharines.