Jamie Smant, MHS, CCC-SLP

ASHA Certified Speech-Language Pathologist | AAC Specialist | Visual Supports Expert

If you have ever wished someone could hand you a roadmap for communicating with your loved one — Jamie Smant is the person who will not only draw you that map, but sit down with you and walk through every single step of it together.

With over 20 years of experience as an ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist, Jamie holds a Master of Health Science (MHS) degree — a credential that reflects a broader clinical and healthcare foundation than a traditional graduate degree in speech-language pathology alone. It is a distinction that shows up in the way Jamie approaches every individual she works with — as a whole person with a unique medical history, sensory profile, family dynamic, and set of life experiences that all deserve to be understood and respected. Her career has taken her across early intervention programs, school-based settings, and clinical practice — supporting individuals with a wide range of communication needs from the earliest years of childhood through adulthood. Throughout her career, Jamie has worked with individuals navigating Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Autism Spectrum Disorder, complex communication disorders, and a wide range of diagnoses. 

But what truly makes Jamie extraordinary is not just what she knows — it is what she creates. Jamie has an almost legendary talent for turning complex communication challenges into clear, beautiful, and highly effective visual tools. Social narratives, visual schedules, communication boards, and AAC systems — Jamie designs them all with a creativity and clinical precision that families and educators consistently describe as transformative. She is equally at home working with low tech picture-based communication systems and the most sophisticated high tech speech-generating devices on the market, and has an exceptional ability to match the right AAC solution to the right individual at the right stage of their communication journey.

For families of non-verbal or minimally verbal individuals who have felt lost, frustrated, or unsure of where to turn — Jamie is the clinician who will meet you with compassion, expertise, and an absolute conviction that your loved one has something important to say. Her mission is simple — to give every individual the tools, the support, and the opportunity to communicate on their own terms.