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In this episode, I am joined by Mollie Romano, a professor and Assistant Director of the Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center at Florida State University. Her research focuses on caregiver implemented interventions to support the development of infants and toddlers with disabilities and those at risk for delays, professional development approaches for early childhood providers, and interventions that target prelinguistic communication skills.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Cara Tambellini. Cara is an early intervention expert speech-language pathologist. She has over a decade of experience working with young children under the age of three. She holds a master's degree in speech-language pathology from Northwestern University. She is licensed to practice in California and is registered by the College of Speech and Hearing Professionals in British Columbia. In addition, Cara is clinically certified by Speech-Language Audiology Canada and she holds her Certification of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.

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Today I am joined by Los Angeles-based speech therapist, parent coach and technology specialist, Rachel Madel. Rachel is dedicated to helping families and speech therapists of children with complex communication needs to communicate functionally throughout their day.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP. Cari is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in private practice in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1993 and her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Cari is a therapist, consultant, author, and nationally recognized speaker who gets paid to do what she loves most…TALK! She works exclusively with young children, birth to age five, and their families and believes that early intervention is the key to future success. She has dedicated her career to helping young children achieve their maximum potential with speech, language, and social-emotional development. Cari has an autistic son which allows her to engage audiences both as a professional and as a parent of a neurodivergent child.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Jessie Ginsburg, M.A, CCC-SLP. Jessie a Sensory IntegrationⓇ trained speech-language pathologist, creator of ASD from the Inside Out, and founder of Pediatric Therapy Playhouse, a top-rated speech & language clinic in Los Angeles. Through her national publications and talks, and her internationally-acclaimed Inside Out course, Jessie inspires a new way of thinking about the SLP’s role in treating young autistic children. We discuss the topic of sensory needs in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and how to implement sensory regulation into therapy sessions to best serve the child. Jessie shares how to identify sensory differences in your students and how to target sensory regulation despite limited resources.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Rachel Dorsey, a Speech-Language Pathologist, educator, consultant, and autism rights advocate. Through her private practice/consultancy, Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC, she provides therapy sessions and education to parents, professionals, school districts, and organizations through coaching, consultations, in-services, professional developments, and courses on neurodiversity-affirming therapeutic practice. The services she offers as a consultant draw upon her own experience as an Autistic person and her nearly six years of clinical experience working within early intervention, preschool (CPSE), school-aged, post-secondary through itinerant work, and clinic-based settings. 

In this session, we discussed important factors and strategies for supporting the socio-emotional well-being of autistic clients. This session explored strategies to implement with young children, as well as, difficulties clinicians may encounter when supporting the socio-emotional wellbeing of older autistic children.

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In this episode, I am joined by Cheri Dodge Chin, an assistive technology consultant for a public school district in Portland, Oregon. She has a clinical doctorate in speech-language pathology and 20+ years of experience helping children, educators, and families develop speech & language skills. She began her blog, Super Power Speech, in 2008 with the hope of engaging other speech pathologists and passing on ideas and resources. The blog is now recognized as one of the first SLP blogs in the world and has been nominated for multiple awards. Aside from flying around and trying to save the world, you can find her reading, running, or eating dessert.

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In this coaching call episode, I am joined by Taylor Carretti, a Speech-Language Pathologist with experience in Early Intervention, Pediatric Clinic, and Public School settings. She is also the IEP Coordinator for Los Alamos Public Schools.

Taylor has some AAC experience but is eager to learn more about it and its best practices.  She also needs guidance on how to best train the staff that are working with her student and is finding ways to help her school district.

In this consultation we discussed staff training, building out an AT position, free access to apps, and implementing a universal AAC system.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Michelle Therrien, a professor at Florida State University whose research interests include connection building – supporting social interaction and friendship for individuals who use AAC, bringing researchers and practitioners together to support the use of evidence-based practices in schools and communities, and forming interdisciplinary collaborations to increase participation of individuals who use AAC in their communities.

In this episode we discussed important factors in supporting social interaction and friendship for individuals who use augmentative and alternative (AAC) systems, as well as supporting children with complex communication needs and autism.

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In this podcourse, I am joined by Kate McLaughlin, a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in augmentative communication for children with complex communication needs.  She is passionate about supporting children and families on their journey to autonomous communication. She is a certified member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and holds licensure as a speech-language pathologist in the state of Connecticut, USA.  Kate is in private practice in Connecticut providing direct therapy and consultative services for individuals with complex communication needs.  Kate is the creator of an online course on AAC called Authentic AAC: Implementing Communication Systems for Autonomy & Connection.

We identified 2 universal requirements for all emergent AAC users, and 3 key stakeholders in AAC assessment. We also described 2 models of AAC assessment and its dynamic process.

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