Tara Roehl - Neural Diversity and Autism - The Impact on Creativity and Innovation

Tara was the guest on the Aug 23rd Killer Innovations radio show.

Topic: Neural Diversity and Autism - The Impact on Creativity and Innovation

Bio:

Tara Roehl is a nationally certified speech-language pathologist. She owns Speechy Keen Speech Therapy, a telepractice-based private practice in Colorado focusing on the social/pragmatic and executive functioning needs of students with ADHD, High Functioning Autism and related disorders. She speaks across the nation at national and state conventions, medical conferences and local groups for parents and professionals. Her topics include executive functioning, telepractice therapy interventions and the integration of the iPad with gamification theory in therapy.

Earlier in her career, Tara worked as a speech therapist in the public school systems and private clinics in Illinois and California. She worked as the lead speech therapist on the Autism diagnostic team for a Bay Area public preschool. While in this role, she designed and launched the district’s “Speech/Social Group” program for children with speech delays and/or high functioning autism diagnoses.

In recent years, Tara has extended her practice by working with individuals with disabilities outside of the United States, including developing long distance remote speech therapy approaches with individuals in Rwanda, Thailand and the Philippines.

Tara holds Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.You can reach Tara on:

Facebook: facebook.com/speechykeenslptwitter: twitter.com/speechykeenslpwebsite: speechykeenslp.com