186: The One About Inter-Professional Practice in Pediatric Feeding Disorders

In this episode, I am joined by Barbara Coven-Ellis, an ASHA  certified speech-language pathologist who is dedicated to helping kids and their families find their way through medically complex and socially isolating feeding and communication challenges.  Speech Pathology is a second career for Barbara, who spent over 30 years in the performing arts as an actress and singer before becoming an SLP. She works in rural Washington State and has experience working in both adult acute care and in a hospital based multidisciplinary pediatric outpatient clinic.  She recently started her own private practice, Chasing Unicorns Pediatric Speech, Language, and Feeding as well as starting her doctoral studies at Northwestern University. Her next big goal is to establish a multidisciplinary pediatric clinic in her area that includes the ability to train new ST, PT and OT clinicians in the multidisciplinary care of medically complex children.  Visit Speechie Side Up to learn more about this episode.