Gavin met and worked with Soma Mukhopadhyay, the creator of Rapid Prompting Method, for the first time in 2007, when he was nine years old. He has worked with Erika Anderson (2010-11) and Jackie Dorshorst (2012 – present), both who are Soma Certified RPM Providers in Wisconsin. Gavin has worked very hard to get where […]
Mallory McClelland is an intuitive healer and problem solver of the highest caliber. She began in business by using her intuitive gifts and talents to support mothers and children with medical complexities and special needs. It has been so beautiful and meaningful to watch mothers of children with autism, PANS/PANDAS, ADHD, and other medical conditions […]
James Neuenschwander (New’-in-schwan’-der), aka Dr. Neu (New), is a physician dually board certified in Emergency and Integrative medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan with both a bachelor’s degree in cellular and molecular biology and a medical degree. For over 30 years, he has cared for chronically ill children and adults using the […]
Cindy has dedicated for over a decade of her life volunteering helping special needs families.
Sonia Story teaches the Brain and Sensory Foundations® program, a curriculum she developed to provide in-depth, comprehensive training in integrative and neurodevelopmental movements. Sonia’s unique curriculum includes movements to release stress, innate rhythmic movements, play, and primitive and postural reflexes that are foundational for addressing sensory, learning, physical, behavioral, emotional, social, and speech challenges. Sonia […]
Dr. Kevin Shapiro, MD, PhD, is an acclaimed cognitive neuroscientist and the Executive Director of Research and Therapeutic Technologies at Cortica. With expertise in neurodevelopmental differences, he identifies underlying causes affecting child development. Trained in pediatric stroke neurology, Dr. Shapiro’s research focuses on learning, brain structure, and language development. He earned his degrees from Harvard […]
Dr. Trifiletti received his MD and Ph.D. (Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeu/cs) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1986. He did his Child Neurology fellowship at the Neurological Ins/tute of New York, followed by full-/me laboratory research at Columbia and Cornell University School of Medicine. At Cornell, in 1998, he first heard about […]
Dr. Sonia McGowin, DC, is the owner of Covenant Chiropractic & Wellness. She is a FOCUS and PX certified doctor. She is also MAPS-trained and Webster certified. For 14 years, she was the Deputy Director of Outreach Services for the Judevine Center for Autism, working with families with autism across 92 counties of Missouri. The […]
Valerie Aprahamian is a special education advocate, consultant, coach and mentor, author, speaker, teacher, and Founder of Advocates For Angels, who protects the rights of parents of neurodiverse children in the development of their child’s Individual Education Program (IEP).As a mother of an adult daughter on the autism spectrum, Valerie has walked the same path […]
Karen Thomas is a Certified Massage Therapist and has practiced Craniosacral Therapy for almost three decades. She is board certified as an instructor of Craniosacral Therapy by The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Her holistic background and study of the human brain proved essential when her own son was diagnosed with autism […]
