CFG Spotlight Series: Rachel Dorsey, A Conversation on Lived and Clinical ARFID Experiences
A Conversation with Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP
Moderated by Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L, NDT
Rachel will discuss her lived experience as an autistic adult and SLP with intermittent ARFID including some childhood experiences and her journey to managing it at the present. She will also tie in some clinical work with autistic kids and teens with pediatric feeding disorder/ARFID.
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About Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP
Rachel Dorsey, M.S., CCC-SLP (she/her) is an autistic Speech-Language Pathologist with a decade of clinical experience in early intervention, the public schools, and private practice. She is the owner of Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC. where she provides clinic-based therapeutic services to preschool through college-aged autistic clients. The heart of her work focuses on helping her clients access social connectedness. She takes a holistic approach, often incorporating various forms of creation (e.g. visual arts, stand-up comedy and improv, music, dance, video game programming) into her neuro-affirming care. Rachel has presented educationally on the topics of gestalt language development, cognitive flexibility, and emotionally accessible social communication therapy for the autistic population in the local community and at the state and national level. She is the creator of the course Goal Writing for Autistic Students and co-creator alongside Caroline Gaddy, MFA, MA-CCC-SLP of the AOTA approved course Supporting Communication of Interoception in Gestalt Language Processors. Outside of work, Rachel enjoys art and illustration, listening to hyperpop and metal music, playing roguelite video games, and spending time with her husband and cat.