About the Founder

Dagmar Rothschild, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, is a speech-language pathologist, musicologist, and neuromusical communication theorist. She is the founder of Melodicus Expressive Integration™ (MEI™) – a music-informed framework for speech, language, and voice therapy that treats voice as a central part of identity, rather than as something to “fix.”

Dagmar holds dual master’s degrees:

A Master of Arts from the CUNY Graduate Center in Musical Properties of Speech and Language, and a Master of Science in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from New York University (NYU).
She is licensed as a speech-language pathologist in New York State and holds the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP)

For nearly two decades, her work has lived on the continuum between art and science. Drawing on her background as a musician, composer, and vocal athlete, she has explored how rhythm, melody, and acoustic resonance can be translated into concrete, neurologically grounded tools for rehabilitation. Her method emerges directly from this long-standing inquiry into how the nervous system, sound, and language shape one another—and how speech, language, and voice can be restored not just as correct output, but as an expression of authentic identity.