Allison has been a therapist, manager, educator, and researcher for four decades. She has always been interested in treating difficult and challenging cases and has for the past 20 years worked mostly with adults in and out of hospital. Since entering full-time private practice, she has focused her efforts on adults with communication, memory and swallowing difficulties related to neurological change. As a therapist she draws on research, daily work, and personal experience to provide a comprehensive program with an emphasis on life participation. She recognizes the challenge of change and works to help her clients accommodate unwanted change. She has extensive experience with telehealth as well as software and iPad apps in Speech-Language Pathology. She has published studies on the effectiveness of virtual treatment for people with aphasia. Her clinical work has been supported over the years with grants designed to investigate the effectiveness of various treatments for communication impairments. For fifteen years she lived and cared for a partner with Parkinson’s Disease and dementia and she knows about the impact of illness on family members affected by communication and cognitive disorders.

Allison has been a therapist, manager, educator, and researcher for four decades. She has always ... Read More