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Leanne Sherred, a pediatric speech therapist, has long encountered challenges putting caregiver-led therapy into practice in traditional care settings. <\/p>\n
Research suggests that caregiver-led speech therapy, which involves training the caregivers of patients in skill-building therapeutic techniques to use at home, can be highly effective. But as Sherred observed in the course of her practice, therapists often have limited access to caregivers and face serious educational and tech roadblocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2020, around the start of the pandemic, Sherred saw an opportunity to attempt a new, tech-forward speech therapy care model, one that put caregivers \u201cat the center of care\u201d (in her words). She teamed up with Nick Barbara (Sherred\u2019s spouse), Spencer Magloff and Ryan Hinojosa to found Expressable<\/a>, a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists.<\/p>\n \u201cLayered on top of Expressable\u2019s synchronous care is a platform that includes multimedia home programming, interactive weekly practice activities, therapist SMS support and more,\u201d Magloff, Expressable\u2019s chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch in an interview. \u201cWith Expressable, speech therapy isn\u2019t limited to one to two times per week, void of caregiver participation.\u201d<\/p>\n