Lauren Merrill Budd is a Speech Language Pathologist in the State of New York. She received her academic training from various colleges while serving in the USAF and earned her (BS 2000), from San Jose State University and (MS 2003), from Teachers College Columbia University in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a minor in Deaf Education. She has worked for over 25 years in the field including medical settings, private practice, rehabilitation, agencies, and public schools.
She has trained extensively in the areas of neurologic/neurogenic communication disorders, medical speech-language pathology, and evidence-based practices, with newborns through geriatrics. She is known for auditory processing disorders, pragmatic disorders, feeding therapy and Myofunctional Therapy. Lauren has created Social Thinking Language Groups with her corporation, Speech Can Teach. Her speech pathology skills go above and beyond the normal scope of practice. With her social thinking groups she brings children ages 7-14 out into the community for activity based learning through her corporation, As Burgers Go Inc. She is starting to open up more groups for infant development with baby sign language and communication, toddler language and play skills, teen socialization and adolescence with problem solving and executive functioning. Her private therapies include Speech, Feeding, Myofunctional Therapy, Pragmatics Therapy, Community Transition Therapy, Tongue Ties, Breastfeeding Assistance, Social Skills and Swallowing Disorders. . She has exposed children to different environments to adapt and transition to a career or job choice that is appropriate for their specific learning styles and needs. As Burgers Go Inc provides inclusive parties for children with special needs, all abilities, and typical development. These parties focus on sensory processing activities for children to build crafts with food (addressing feeding aversions) and hands-on activities that are kinesthetic and tactile. The focus of these parties is to allow every child to have an opportunity to enjoy a birthday party with instructional support and structure to help them decrease sensory overload; be included and build success.