Amy is a graduate of the Masters in Speech and Language Therapy in the University of Limerick where she graduated in 2010, having completed her Degree in Early Childhood Studies in UCC. Amy has spent her career to date specialising in her passion in supporting Autistic and neurodiverse children, teenagers and adults.

Amy has extensive and international experience as a specialist SLT in a range of disability and education teams in Ireland and New Zealand. She has been involved in Autism identification for a broad age range of children and teenagers, with particular interest in timely identification and post-identification support for Autistic girls and women. She is passionate in educating and updating other professionals’ knowledge with new information and supporting families to advocate for their child’s needs.

Amy is trained and experienced in providing a wide range of parent training programmes, recently including the Teen Life program for parents of Autistic Teenagers and regularly hosts online and in-person workshops for parents and educators.

She is dedicated to promoting a neuro-affirmative model of identification and support for people and has a wide range of clinical and also personal experiences in the area. Amy’s hope for all clients she works with is to promote authenticity and empowerment and she is delighted to bring her experience to the Diverse Minds team.