Madeline Ruffin received her Bachelors and Master's degree from the University of Maine-Orono. She is currently an EdD student in the Interdisciplinary Leadership program at Creighton University. Madeline has experience working in outpatient pediatric therapy and school-based speech services. She has practiced as a Speech Language Pathologist in Maine, Alaska, Illinois and now Nebraska. She has focused on culturally responsive care and neurodiversity – affirming therapy. Madeline is trained in Natural Language Acquisition and specializes in Gestalt Language Processing. Madeline also has strong clinical skills in the areas of expressive/receptive language disorders, augmentative and alternative communication, articulation and phonological disorders.