Creative Communication Care & Consulting

Serving all of Massachusetts

Providing your autistic child, teen, or young adult with engaging speech therapy sessions by telepractice

Advising schools and families on visual supports for building communication and language

  • Have you been told by teachers, doctors, and therapists to "use visual supports with your child," but you’re unsure where to start or how to make it work?

  • Are you looking for assistance with programming your child’s AAC device, and helping your child to use it more often and in a greater variety of situations?

  • Does your child have special interests, needs, or behavioral tendencies that make it difficult for them to focus during traditional clinic-based speech therapy sessions?

I’d love to help!

I’m Dr. Anna Allen, a pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in autism and other developmental differences in children and teenagers. I am passionate about creating engaging treatment activities, materials, and individualized visual supports that capture my clients’ unique interests and strengths. I understand that implementing visual supports for communication can feel overwhelming, and I help caregivers organize and integrate practical visual supports into their children’s routines. My mission is to provide neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed care that respects families’ cultures, celebrates their values, and serves their functional needs.

My areas of expertise include autism and other developmental differences; receptive language (comprehension) and expressive language; social pragmatic skills; speech intelligibility; executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, schedules); augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); evidence-based practice and research interpretation; creating customized visual supports (digital and/or paper-based) for expressive and/or receptive communication and for assisting with organization and transitions; and caregiver training.

Contact me

I would love to hear from you! Simply fill out this contact form; you’re also welcome to contact me by email, phone, or text. We’ll start by scheduling a free, 20-minute Zoom or telephone consult to discuss what you’re looking for and whether I may be the right person to help!

Anna Allen, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
aaa.ccc.slp@gmail.com‪

(617) 651-1260‬