About

Jessica McGrath is a neuroaffirming Senior Speech and Language Therapist based in the West of Ireland and the founder of Jessica McGrath Speech and Language Therapy.

Jessica works with children, families and the wider support network around them to support communication in ways that are respectful, meaningful and individual to each child. Her areas of professional interest include autistic communication, neurodiversity-affirming practice, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and supporting Gestalt Language Processors.

Jessica graduated from the Masters of Science in Speech and Language Therapy in the University of Limerick in 2017. She completed her Undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology. Jessica is a registered member of Coru and is a member of the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), the Independent Speech Therapists of Ireland (ISTI), and the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective.

She is passionate about helping teachers and parents understand their child’s unique language and how to build connection, safety, trust, and regulation in order to build the foundations for language development.

Jessica also works with Clinical Psychologists in Solas Psychology, carrying out Autism identifications and providing comprehensive reports and recommendations for appropriate services and supports to help the individual in school, home and in the community. Jessica uses aspects of different therapy frameworks and models strategically, continuously staying updated on new research emerging regarding diversity in social intelligence, The Double Empathy Problem, Autistic Masking, joint attention differences, and autistic developmental milestone trajectories, etc.