Lisa Kohel is dual trained as an Elementary Teacher and as a Speech Language Pathologist. She has been practicing speech language pathology for 18 years and has spent the majority of her career supporting students and educators in schools.  She has a small private practice and currently supports school districts, children, and their families looking for support in language, literacy, speech sound disorders.  She works with schools and teachers to implement whole-class, evidence-based language and literacy practices and is interested in collaborative efforts to improve student outcomes, especially for children at-risk or have identified speech-language needs.  Lisa is completing her first year of Doctoral studies at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Psychology-Special Education under the supervision of Dr. Lesly Wade-Woolley.  Lisa’s interests include understanding the linguistic profiles of students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) as they progress through the grades, early identification of those students typically identified as late-emerging struggling readers, Teacher and SLP self-guided learning journey experiences around the science of reading, and Teacher SLP collaboration to meet the needs of children identified with oral language and reading impairment.