The Art and Science of Collaborative Practice
Working Better Together
Remember the old adage, “two heads are better than one”? Kelly and Juliana are certainly no exception! With a combined total of nearly 40 years experience, they understand that all children deserve their own unique set of supports that will help them to overcome challenges and live their best lives. How? Glad you asked…
All communication is a form of behaviour, though it can take many shapes and forms. When children struggle to communicate their needs and wants, they instead express their feelings through escalated or intense behaviour. A detailed speech and language assessment can help pinpoint the areas where language – and behaviour – are breaking down. This includes what the child understands, interprets, and is able to remember. It also includes how they can solve a problem, make a plan, and come up with the right words.
Knowing this, it comes as no surprise that both behaviour and language are deeply rooted in development and learning. When we are able to understand the areas where a child’s language is breaking down, we can then determine the steps needed to help them understand and communicate effectively, learn readily, and participate in daily social exchanges at home, school, and in their communities.
Kelly and Juliana come from different fields and professional experiences. While Kelly’s background is speech and language, Juliana’s is behaviour analysis. They each have a rich history and wealth of experience in their respective fields that earned them top-tier positions, growing and leading large teams of clinicians to provide prominent provincial programmes and outstanding therapeutic services. After great individual success, their worlds collided.
While the paths that led them here seemed random and unexplainable, both believe that they were no accident. Juliana and Kelly bonded over a belief that every individual has great potential to learn, but may not have access to services or supports that allow them to do so in a way that is most suited to them. Armed with drive, clinical excellence, devotion to clients, and a titch of caffeine, Kelly and Juliana joined forces to put their skills to exceptional use: finding the unique pathway that is optimal for each individual’s ability to learn. They possess a direct, straight-shooting style of assessment, communication, and program design that gets straight to the heart of what families want to tackle. It is their desire to come alongside children and families, to collaborate with other professionals, and to advocate for individualized plans and supports that keep each child’s unique learning needs at the center in achieving best outcomes. Together, Kelly and Juliana have a working dynamic and rich clinical history that make them a powerhouse team, and an unstoppable force in achieving every learner’s desired potential!
