Kathy Dow-Burger

Former Co-Director, UMARC
Clinical Associate Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences
PhD Student, Special Education

Kathy Dow-Burger, M.A., CCC-SLP is the University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP) Friedman Family Director of Neurodiversity and Autism Transition Services (NATS). She is a nationally-certified, Maryland State licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) and Clinical Associate Professor who has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of autism and other communication disorders across the lifespan as well as an advocate for accessibility and use of accommodations and Universal Design for Learning for neurodivergent people. She manages the NATS programs as well as the clinical instruction and supervision of HESP graduate and undergraduate students engaged in their speech-language pathology practicum.