Sarah
Friel,
CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Health Professions
Sarah Friel MA CCC SLP – Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute of Health Professions, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ms. Friel is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at MGHIHP. She has extensive clinical, academic, and scholarly experience in pediatric developmental speech and language difficulties. Her current interest is exploring functional, play-based inter-professional support for autistic children and their caregivers.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This Lightening Talk will describe our institutionally funded innovative pilot program called Supporting and Empowering Neurodiverse Children Everyday (SENCE) that offered entry-level occupational therapy doctoral (EL-OTD) and masters’ level speech-language pathology (SLP) students a hands-on opportunity to observe, co-treat and learn from neurodiverse children and their caregivers. Graduate student clinicians, caregivers and children engaged in intrinsically motivating, meaningful, developmentally appropriate, and functional activities to best support the child’s development and both the…