I sat in the beige armchair of my dingy apartment I had recently moved into post-divorce. 

I had just put my two boys to bed and was scrolling through social media.

The pandemic had just hit, and SLPs from all over the world were going into fight or flight.

My feed was littered with frantic...

Have you ever wondered if your child or client has a PDA profile? 

PDA is known as Pathological Demand Avoidance, but we like to use the more affirming term, Pervasive Drive for Autonomy.

We recently sat down with Dr. Tay, a distinguished child psychologist specializing in early autism...

When you are an in-home therapist, your body is often a playground. 

Am I right??

If you’ve done home-based speech therapy before, you understand how much these little ones love to move. 

Which is why it is so important to be able to provide sensory-based sessions for these...

Let’s talk about using sensory strategies in a clinic setting. 

As the owner of a private practice, I understand how easy this sounds in theory but can often be hard to implement in reality. 

When I talk about implementing a sensory based approach in a clinic setting, I’m...

How do I bring up autism to families?

This is a great question. And the truth is…

I don’t believe there is one perfect way. 

When we try to use a one-size fits all approach to bringing up autism to different families, it usually blows up in our faces. 

But before we go into...