Julie has worked in public education for 20 years, 18 of which were as an SLP. Her passion for teaching others shows in her intentional consulting work with parents and teachers, where she creates individualized plans to support their child’s communication goals. Julie has led school district trainings in several disciplines including neurodiversity affirming practices, conversation strategies, sentence manipulation therapy, executive functioning, and text comprehension. Over the years, she has collaborated with teachers and parents to support neurodiverse students using AAC, building self advocacy, and implementing strategies for group work participation. She has experience with many populations, including but not limited to articulation, language comprehension and expression, social and play skills, executive functioning, gestalt language processing, selective mutism, swallowing, stuttering, apraxia, voice disorders, and orofacial myofunctional disorders. She is trained in Lindamood Bell (LiPS & VV), Social Scales, Conversation Paths, PEERS Curriculum, Hodson’s Cycles, and Dynamic Temporal & Tactile Cueing.