Kennis Furuya Bishop, M.S./CCC-SLP is a licensed, certified Speech-Language Pathologist with over 20 years of clinical experience in her fields of expertise.
1993 – University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences
1997 – Boston University, MA
M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology
1998 – Hoag Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, CA
Clinical Fellowship in medical Speech-Language Pathology
Kennis has practiced speech-language pathology at the acute care, transitional care, and outpatient levels of healthcare in both California and Massachusetts. She has also consulted for public schools across the continuum, from preschool through high school. Early in graduate school, she earned acceptance into a selective government grant program to focus on independent team assessments of children in urban school settings, and later into a clinical chaplaincy fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Both of these specialized training programs strengthened her development in multi-disciplinary care and treating the whole person. She was awarded special recognition for her excellence and compassion in clinical care, teamwork, and innovation at a system-wide level within her healthcare organization over 15 years. When she relocated from Massachusetts in 2018, she left her position as Supervisor of SLP services at a Harvard medical school-affiliated teaching hospital in Boston.
In 2019, Kennis returned to her roots in Southern California and decided to open a private practice in the Eastlake area of Chula Vista, CA in San Diego County. She sees children and adults, providing speech and language intervention across the lifespan. Seeing clients in their homes or natural environments, Kennis believes in collaborating with her clients and their families for the most meaningful outcomes and natural carryover.