Julie Casady

Julie Casady (“Jules”) approaches her work as a speech-language pathologist with enthusiasm, humility, and connectedness. She focuses on identifying and building upon an individual's strengths in a naturalistic and engaging way. 

She has had a diverse experience working with individuals of unique abilities including working as a special education classroom assistant, one-on-one assistant, behavior interventionist, speech-language technician, and now currently as a speech-language pathologist. She prioritizes a collaborative model for service delivery and has worked alongside practitioners gaining experience in incidental teaching, peer-mediated treatment, relationship-based interventions, TEACCH, Social Thinking, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (Ross Greene), and other executive function curriculums.

Additionally, she has experience working with students with severe social-emotional diagnoses and with older students in vocational classrooms. She has a passion for augmentative alternative communication (AAC) and has been trained in Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP), Touchchat, Lingraphica, Proloquo2Go, Proloquo4Text, and Predictable Text. She also has experience with alternative access AAC including eye gaze, head-tracking, switches, joysticks, and alternative mouse controls.  She incorporates a variety of assistive technology supports in her practice including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, screen reading software, FM systems, and symbol-making software.

Jules holds two bachelor's degrees: one in Social Science from Chapman University and one in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Utah State University. In addition, she earned a Master’s of Science in Speech-Language and Hearing from Northern Arizona University. She is currently licensed as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) in the state of California.