An 8-Week LIVE Course Series

9 Professional Development Hours
Begins September 17, 2025

Are you a speech-language pathologist or parent looking for more meaningful, effective ways to support minimally and nonspeaking autistic children?

This course is designed to give you real, practical tools to support minimally-speaking autistic children by integrating what we know about sensorimotor regulation, dyspraxia, gestalt language development, and AAC. You’ll learn how to combine these approaches in a cohesive, tangible way—so you can confidently support authentic, meaningful communication for each child. 

🔍 What You’ll Learn Each Week:

Week 1: Laying the Groundwork
Intro to course, exploring WHY kids are minimally speaking, redefining joint attention, supporting the foundations of communication -- trust, safety, engagement and attention.

Week 2: Ditching the Toy Box: Supporting Minimal Speakers Through Sensorimotor Play
🎤 Guest Expert: Ashley Gillespie, child development specialist
Founder of Bloom Developmental Center (@bloomdevelopmentalcenter)

Week 3: Exploring Dyspraxia

What dyspraxia looks like in autistic children, how it relates to speech production, and supporting dyspraxic kids to access speech by using Marge Blanc's dyspraxia hierarchy of supports.

Week 4: Whole-Body Communication: Sensory + Motor Planning from an OT Perspective
🎤 Guest Expert: Erin Clarelli, M.S., OTR/L
Occupational Therapist at Sunrise Therapies (@sunrise.therapies) 

Week 5: Childhood Apraxia of Speech + Gestalt Language Processing
Understanding overlaps, individualized support, and clinical application.

Week 6: Supporting Minimally Speaking GLPs 

Helping minimal speakers, who we suspect are gestalt language processors, to access communication

Week 7: AAC + GLP: Multimodal Communication That Makes Sense Integrating AAC with gestalt language processing and sensory needs

Week 8: Q&A + Real-World Case Studies Bring your questions and case specific questions!

📦 What’s Included:

• 8 LIVE weekly training sessions with replays available (1 year access)

• A comprehensive digital handbook full of tools and strategies

• Guest lectures from experts in child development and occupational therapy

• A certificate for 9 PDH hours

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