ASHA & BACB Ethics for Collaboration/Tele-Health

Lindsay Lauters, MS, CCC-SLP  has 11 years of experience as a school–based speech-language pathologist and has also provided hospital-based rehabilitation services in acute and a sub-acute care as well as intervention via private practice. As a school-based SLP, her roles include mentor, clinical supervisor, Positive Behavioral Interventions Supports Coach, collaborative educator, and diagnostician.  She designed and co-teaches a first grade, language-based literacy curriculum in collaboration with a teacher and special education teacher.    Her expertise in providing therapy for children with a wide variety of disabilities and early work providing intervention for students with autism and behavioral challenges inform her community and state-wide professional development offerings.  She has specialized expertise in positive behavior interventions and supports, understanding behavior based on a functional behavioral analysis, and development and implementation of behavior intervention plans. 

Her passion for individuals with special needs and their families has led her to present on implementation of special education in schools,  Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rights and methods for supporting participants with special needs through recreational programs and crisis prevention practices.  Lindsay is a  certified trainer through the Crisis Prevention Institute.   She is the owner/director of A Way with Words, LLC.  

Jennifer is a dually credentialed professional, licensed and certified as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Behavior Analyst (BCBA). She possesses expertise and advanced skills in teaching language to children on the autism spectrum. She has helped clients across the life span from Early Intervention, Preschool through School in both home and center-based settings. Over the past 10 years, she has successfully integrated strategies and techniques from both disciplines to help individuals with autism and their educational teams generate better student outcomes.

Tamara S. Kasper, MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA, is a Speech-Language Pathologist with nearly 30 years of experience working with children with challenging behaviors. Tamara’s commitment to the children she serves led her to pursue treatment methods outside the field of Speech-Language Pathology. Under the mentorship of renowned Behavior Analyst Dr. Vincent Carbone and his protégé, Tamara became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She has completed advanced training in application of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior and Kaufman’s strategies for apraxia of speech. 

Tamara is a frequently invited international lecturer, treating clients and training professionals in countries including England, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, Senegal. She enthusiastically shares her unique approaches and outside-the-box techniques that successfully build functional verbal behavior for children on the autism spectrum.   She provides consulting and workshops in the U.S. and abroad (Kasper Enterprises, LLC.)

Tamara is also the Director/Owner of The Center for Autism Treatment, Inc. (www.centerautismtreatment.org) near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; A center which provides personalized intensive ABA intervention and group social communication skills training for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.  Tamara’s publications include the K&K Sign to Talk materials, Speak with Sign, and research supporting sign language intervention to promote vocal skills and phonetic hand cues. She is a past recipient of the Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Association’s Clinical Achievement Award.