Karen A. Howe

Karen Francioso-Howe is the owner and co-director of Village Speech LLC in Easton, a large private practice developed in 2005. She supervises a staff of 16 speech-language pathologists, and provides speech and language services to the pediatric and adolescent populations in the Easton school system. Francioso-Howe has also worked at the Hospital Pediatric Center in Braintree where she was the senior speech-language pathologist. She has supervised students from Bridgewater State University and Sacred Heart University, and has been supervising Stonehill students since 2015.

Francioso-Howe has earned her Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

She has authored several publications for the public in the areas of speech and language development, otitis media, and plays skills in language.  As coordinator of Stonehill’s internship program, she provides students with the opportunity to observe clients in her practice as well as in other educational and clinical settings.

Education

• B.A., Bridgewater State University
• M.S., Northeastern University

Course Taught

• Internship in Speech-Language Pathology