Services
Online speech-language therapy and visual supports consultation for neurodivergent learners, their families, and the schools and teams that support them.
For families
Strengths-based evaluations
My evaluations focus on your child’s strengths and on finding the visual supports that will help them communicate, rather than on standardized testing.
Step 1: Meet with you (30 minutes, Zoom)
You tell me how your child communicates right now, what they love, and what their daily routines look like.
Step 2: Intake packet
You complete an intake packet with health and education history.
Step 3: Meet with your child (30 minutes, Zoom)
Using what I learned from you, I design an online session to find the visual supports that will work best for them.
Step 4: Written report
You receive a written evaluation explaining what I found and recommending next steps.
From there, we can schedule consultation time to create and use visual supports at home, and/or begin individual therapy.
Consultations for families
A consultation gives you individualized access to my time and expertise, without the ongoing commitment of weekly therapy.
Depending on your family’s needs, I can:
Give practical advice on using visual supports in daily life
Teach you to make your own customized visual activities or communication displays, or create them for you
Help you program and use your child’s existing AAC system
Brainstorm age-appropriate, fun recreational or vocational activities for your teenager or young adult
Explore and explain the research behind therapy approaches you’re considering
Family consultations are available by Zoom or phone anywhere in Massachusetts, with in-home consulting possible in the greater Boston area. A written summary of recommendations is available after our meeting.
Online speech-language therapy
Sessions last 30 to 60 minutes, depending on what works best for your child. I design each session around your child’s interests and the visual supports that suit them, using tools like green screen effects, image editing, and animated slides to keep things fun and engaging. The focus is functional communication that matters to young people and their caregivers, along with vocabulary and grammar skills that build over time.
Areas we may work on in therapy include:
Receptive and expressive language
Social pragmatics
Organization and executive functioning
Speech intelligibility
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
For schools and care teams
Consultation, training, and ongoing advising for educators, program leaders, school-based SLPs, and special education teams who support learners with communication challenges.
Visual supports for your classroom or program
I design classroom visual supports for learners with varying degrees of symbolic understanding, to strengthen language comprehension and expression, social pragmatic skills, academic skills, and understanding of behavioral expectations. I also provide ongoing advising on putting comprehensive visual supports in place for neurodivergent learners, in both school and vocational settings.
Problem-solving when progress stalls
If a learner isn’t making the expected progress with their current visual supports, I’ll help you work out why and find new approaches.
Research in plain language
I search and interpret current research relevant to your district, program, classroom, or student population, and explain the findings in straightforward language.
Staff training and coaching may involve:
Teaching educators to assess learners’ levels of symbolic understanding (how they understand pictures, symbols, and words)
Support for writing communication goals and collecting data (for school-based SLPs and special education teachers)
Presenting the science behind evidence-based approaches and techniques
Training is flexible and designed to fit your needs.
Ready to get started?
Whether you’re a parent, educator, or part of a care team, let’s start with a free 20-minute conversation.