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Bettina Lopez-Lam

Bettina Lopez-Lam, M.S., CCC-SLP, IBCLC, is a speech-language pathologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with nearly 15 years of experience in medical, outpatient, and private practice settings serving individuals across the lifespan. She specializes in gestalt language processing, sensory processing and regulation, pediatric and infant feeding, and neurogenic cognitive-communication and swallowing conditions, as well as brain injury rehabilitation. As a late-identified autistic and ADHD professional and parent to an autistic child, Bettina integrates clinical expertise with lived experience to provide holistic, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and culturally responsive care.

Recent Articles

Understanding Autism

My autistic child isn’t talking: An SLP and parent perspective on nonspeaking autism and communication
Parent Stories

Melodies of meaning: An autistic SLP, parent, and Gestalt Language Processor’s journey
Practical Tools & Strategies

From the holidays I imagined to the ones we need: Supporting autistic children through sensory needs, ARFID, and family expectations
Understanding Autism

Language that blooms: how Gestalt Language Processing helps us see communication differently