Jennifer Minnelli M.S., CCC-SLP

Jen is a Speech Language Pathologist with over two decades of experience working across a variety of settings (school, private practice, outpatient clinic, inpatient acute care) in pediatric speech pathology. Jen served in leadership and mentoring roles in her years at Duke Hospital in the Division of Speech and Audiology. She has served as a mentor to other clinicians in the North Carolina early childhood initiative mentoring program.

Over the years of providing services to a wide variety of people with different communication needs, Jen developed a passion and expertise for helping individuals with social cognitive challenges. Jen has completed an advanced clinical training in Social Thinking® and is one of the Social Thinking® providers in North Carolina. In her work with people across the lifespan, Jen provides treatment in the areas of social communication, emotional regulation, social problem-solving, narrative skills, and parent coaching and education. Jen draws her inspiration from a variety of sources, including Mindwing Concepts (Rooney-Moreau), The Interoceptive Awareness Curriculum (Mahler), DIR-Floortime (Greenspan), and Collaborative Problem Solving (Greene). Jen also provides speech intelligibility and written language services to clients.

Jen has a passion for helping neurodivergent people engage in their school, camp, or workplace, and she loves collaboration with clients, their families, and treatment teams.

As a young child, Jen struggled with dyslexia and learning difficulties. Her family is a lovable assortment of differently wired people. These life experiences fuel her passion for growing, learning, and helping others to make sense of the social world, set goals, develop relationship skills, and advocate for themselves.

Now that Jen has launched her two children into adulthood, she is trying new things like horseback riding and yoga. Learning through play and by trying things that are difficult even in adult life is a core value!