Expert-Led Professional Development
for SLPs & Teams
Expand your expertise with dynamic, evidence-based training tailored for speech-language pathologists, school districts, and organizations.
From concise keynote presentations to immersive multi-day workshops…
I provide engaging, research-driven content that enhances clinical skills, fosters professional growth, and inspires lasting impact.
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Explain appropriate assessment procedures for children with complex communication needs who require AAC tools and strategies.
Construct ways to implement AAC technologies in general and exceptional education classrooms.
Illustrate various intervention techniques to ensure students with complex communication needs go beyond the requested level and start generating more complex language.
Implement literacy learning into your language intervention.
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Evaluate your own cultural and linguistic competence.
Create a self-reflective plan to develop and improve your cultural humility.
Construct assessment strategies to gather data on a child’s cultural, linguistic, and social identities.
Determine the impact of a child’s cultural, linguistic, and social identity on assessment and intervention services.
Conduct culturally and linguistically diverse ethnographic interviews.
Build productive relationships with interpreters.
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Characteristics of DLD and common co-occurring conditions.
How to develop diagnostically accurate assessment protocols for children with potential DLD.
Identify DLD in school-aged children.
Curriculum-aligned intervention plans for children with DLD.
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Explain the advantages and disadvantages of various assessment tools.
Understand the psychometric principles used to develop norm-referenced measures and how they impact the assessment process.
Determine whether assessment tools are diagnostically accurate.
Describe the various scores obtained by norm-referenced testing and how they can be used in the diagnostic process.
Utilize feasible language sample analysis measures.
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Define executive functioning.
Describe the development of executive functioning in children.
Explain the roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists in the assessment and intervention of executive functioning abilities in children.
Formulate evidence-based assessment and intervention plans for children with executive functioning needs that consider the curriculum and academic success.
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Explain the critical tenants of interprofessional service delivery.
Develop mechanisms and frameworks for interprofessional assessment and intervention that consider each professional’s unique contributions.
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Develop evidence-based reading and writing interventions that consider the student's curriculum and academic success.
Integrate literacy learning into your current language therapy.
Create push-in lesson plans for a variety of academic general and exceptional education classes that are language and literacy-enriched.
Elevate Your Practice with Expert Training
I offer dynamic workshops, keynotes, and hands-on training tailored for speech-language pathologists, healthcare teams, and educators. My sessions bridge scientific research with real-world clinical practice, ensuring attendees walk away with practical, actionable knowledge.
Why work with The Big Picture?
With over a decade of experience in speech-language pathology, research consulting, and curriculum development, I deliver engaging, science-backed training that translates directly into improved clinical outcomes.
Scientific Articles
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Differences in Child Language Assessment Practices Between School-Based and Non–School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
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Bilingual Parents' Experiences Receiving Advice Regarding Language Use: A Qualitative Perspective
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Morphological Errors in Spanish-Speaking Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorders
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Morphological Errors in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorders
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Service Learning in the Time of COVID-19
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What Does Evidence-Based Practice Mean to You? A Follow-Up Study Examining School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice
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The Impact of Clinical Review Bias on Child Language Grammaticality
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Diagnostic Decisions in Child Language Assessment: Findings From a Case Review Assessment Task
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Interacting with persons who have ALS: Time, media, modality, and collaboration via speech-generating devices
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Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success: A MOOC for Everyone.
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Convergent and divergent validity of the grammaticality and utterance length instrument
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School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Diagnostic Decision Making
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Increased vocal intensity due to the Lombard effect in speakers with Parkinson's disease: simultaneous laryngeal and respiratory strategies
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