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Kathy Dow-Burger

Hearing and Speech Sciences

Kathy Dow-Burger is a Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Clinical Professor and the Friedman Endowed Director of the Neurodiversity and Autism Transition Services which includes SIGNA’s college program for neurodivergent students and the EFFECT and modified-PEERS high school college-bound programs. She is a certified and licensed speech-language therapist with extensive experience in autism and other communication differences, advocacy for accessibility, use of accommodations, and Universal Design for Learning for neurodiverse people. Kathy is a co-organizer of the annual Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference which brings together leading scholars, neurodivergent leaders and practitioners, and leading neurodiversity employers to advance neurodiversity employment research.