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.