About
I'm a speech-language pathologist with experience across diverse clinical settings—outpatient clinics, public schools, and therapeutic boarding programs for students with autism and co-occurring psychiatric conditions. This varied background shaped my understanding of how different environments, relationships, and modalities impact learning and communication. I now direct Speaking of Horses, a nonprofit providing equine-assisted speech therapy to children with nonverbal autism from low-income families, combining evidence-based clinical practice with the unique therapeutic power of working with horses.
Expertise and Specializations
As a specialist in autism spectrum disorder—particularly nonverbal and minimally verbal communication—I provide individualized, evidence-based speech-language pathology services. My clinical expertise spans expressive and receptive language, articulation, fluency, and feeding disorders. I'm also the founder and director of Speaking of Horses, a nonprofit that delivers speech therapy through equine-assisted intervention for children from low-income families, recognizing that therapeutic relationships and movement-based learning can powerfully support communication development.
Skills
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Work Experience
Evaluated and treated kindergarten through second grade students for speech and language disorders
Evaluates and treats middle school and high school boys at a private school with behavioral, mental health, developmental, and neurological difference
Evaluate and treats children from low socioeconomic backgrounds with nonverbal or minimally verbal autism and other communication disorder on horseback.
Evaluated and treated elementary aged students with a wide range of backgrounds and disorders in a public school system virtually
Evaluated and treated pediatric speech and language disorders in an outpatient clinical setting
Education
• M. Ed. Communication Sciences and Disorders
• GPA: 3.9; Dean’s List
• Rufus J. and Mary C. Costen Scholarship; Doyle Fellowship
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Audiology and Auditory (Re)habilitation
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