Dr. Cindy Gevarter BCBA-D is an associate professor in the University of New Mexico’s Speech and Hearing Sciences Department. She received her PhD in early childhood special education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests center around neurodiversity-affirming approaches to serving autistic children and their families, as well as supporting the clinic education of SLP graduate students who will work with neurodiverse populations and/or are neurodiverse themselves. Her areas of expertise and interest include naturalistic developmental behavioral communication interventions, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), family centered and culturally relevant early intervention. graduate clinician instruction, cascading coaching models, and inter-professional collaboration. She is the project director of the OSEP funded Project SCENES and Project MESA graduate training grant programs.
