Tzipora Sacks, SLP
Specializing in Orofacial-Myofunctional Therapy
Hi! My name is Tzipora Sacks, but most people call me Tzippy. I live on the south shore of Long Island with my family. I am blessed to have my 3 children and one granddaughter who lives right nearby. When I am not working I am busy spending my time with them.
Professionally I am a licensed speech-language pathologist with 20 years of experience. I hold a Master’s degree from Touro College, where I graduated with honors and received awards for Exemplary Service and Leadership as well as Outstanding Clinical Skills.
As a lifelong learner, I have pursued hundreds of hours of advanced training in feeding, oral motor skills, orofacial myofunctional therapy, and tongue tie management. I have a strong passion for early childhood development and speech sound disorders, which has shaped my extensive clinical experience.
My career has spanned diverse settings, including the NYC Department of Education, where I earned a Certificate of Excellence for outstanding achievement in the “Art” of Communication. After transitioning from a school-based role to early intervention, I worked closely with neurotypical and neurodivergent children and their families, focusing on individualized care.
In 2021, I earned my Qualified Orofacial Myologist (QOM) certification and am currently a certification candidate through the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM). Today, I own and operate a full-time private practice on the North Shore of Long Island, where I provide care for patients with orofacial myofunctional disorders. Additionally, I supervise clinicians and graduate school students as well as teach courses to therapists to help support them to provide the highest standards of care.
My passion for airway health and oral function is deeply personal—shaped both by my work with clients who felt “stuck” in therapy and by my own son’s journey through tongue tie and airway concerns. This experience drives my commitment to addressing root causes to achieve lasting, meaningful results.
Tzippy did an outstanding job working with our son on his R pronunciation. Her sessions were fun for our 8 year old son while still being jammed packed with practice. Tzippy spent countless hours aside from our sessions to check on our son’s progress, guid us, come up with different plans and tactics, and counseling other professionals when she realized he needed further intervention.
We are so grateful for all her love, dedication, and hard work and we definitely gain her as a friend on the way. When our other son has developed some speech issues, Tzippy was the first we contacted to help him as well.
I had the privilege of having Tzippy as my son’s speech therapist for a year and she was so much more than just a speech therapist.
Beyond connecting with our child and teaching him the prerequisites of speech and communication , she made every session fun and shared her wealth of speech knowledge with me too so that I could practice the skills at home.Tzippy treated our whole family with compassion and was an invaluable part of our sons therapy team.
When COVID-19 hit, Tzippy was not deterred and in her organized way continued to do speech via teletherapy.
Working with Tzippy made me realize that she pays so much attention to detail and individualizes each session to suit my child.
I feel so blessed that Tzippy worked with my child and I am forever grateful to her.
My goal was for my son to be able to read his Torah portion at his bar mitzvah without any speech impediments. We started with Tzippy after failing to overcome his lisps through a very expensive private speech therapist as well as through a school based Speech Therapist. Tzippy is very knowledgeable in her field but she also made therapy fun and exciting. We will never forget my son’s therapy graduation when he released nine balloons into the sky – each one representing a different sound he achieved. Every once in a while I ask him if it’s hard for him to talk correctly now…and he always responds smiling and says “no”
