Upcoming Webinars
Monday, May 20, 2024 | 2:00 p.m. ET
Voice Preservation; Voice Banking and Message Banking. What You Need to Know.
Presented by Kate Nilson MS, CCC-SLP, Care Services Manager
Kate has worked at the ALS Association as a Care Services Manager since 2021. She also continues her work as the clinic Speech Language Pathologist at the University of Minnesota Health Fairview ALS Clinic one day per week, where she has provided speech, swallowing and Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) intervention to those living with ALS since 2017. Kate also teaches the AAC course to future speech-language pathologists at the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to the ALS Association, Kate spent 12 years working in home health care, specializing in AAC.
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