Before moving to the United States in 2005 Marina majored in the English and German languages in Russia. While she was working as a children’s tutor for English, a coworker recommend that she study the field of speech-language pathology. In 2014 she saw that dream come to fruition when she graduated from Seton Hall University in New Jersey and started working in a rehabilitation center as a speech-language pathologist. Since 2015, she has had the joy of working in early intervention, predominately with bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese-English) families. Marina, who holds her “More Than Words” certification from Hanen, places significant emphasis on a child-centered naturalistic approach to early intervention.