Chelsea Webber is a clinical fellow with an anticipated date to receive ASHA certification as a Speech-Language Pathologist in early 2024. Chelsea received her master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from East Carolina University in December 2022. Despite the recent scholastic credentials, Chelsea has 14 years experience in the field of speech thanks to her lovely teenage boys. To know Chelsea’s skill set is to know her boys. Andrew was a late talker who used baby sign and exhibited great frustration until his first words around age 4 then struggled through articulation difficulties, a sensory processing disorder, ADHD/anxiety/autism and is now the most talkative and creative beautiful young man. Oliver is a complex medical child by definition but calls himself “Batman” because it’s the technology that gives him his super powers. From early picture symbols, eye gaze, basic sign, two choice buttons on an ipad, and a variety of language apps, Oliver was communicating in some form or other way before he received his first “talker”. He uses his eye-gaze AAC device of 9 years to sing to the radio, make up jokes, babysit his little brother, and call family via Siri or Alexa. Chelsea’s passion for facilitating emerging communication led her to work with the team at Communication PowerHouse despite living in Raleigh.
