Bio
Kimberly Stewart, MS CCC-SLP is an executive function coach and speech-language pathologist with expertise in the diagnosis and treatment developmental language disorders. She specializes in the impact of executive function difficulty on communication (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and on day-to-day function (materials management, time management, project planning). Kim works with adolescents and adults whose struggles with organization are often missed due to their strong cognitive abilities. She has expertise in helping people develop skills to find structure independently and create organizational systems that are personally meaningful and sustainable. Over the course of her more than 20 years of practice, she developed the ThoughtGathering™ methodology to supporting detail-oriented thinkers in understanding and applying organization using an approach that is consistent with their bottom-up thinking.
Before opening a private practice in 2007, Kim worked as Senior Speech-Language Pathologist and Clinical Specialist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received hospital-wide recognition for her clinical work, being honored with the Stephanie M. Macaluso, RN Excellence in Clinical Practice Award. Kim has presented at the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, provided in-services to teachers, speech-language pathologist and psychology graduate students, clinicians, interns, and staff, and has provided specialized trainings to numerous groups ranging from elementary school staff and dissertation-writing graduate students to faculty looking to improve the organization of their course content. She is a professional member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Kim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in German Literature from Mount Holyoke College. Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship where she spent a year teaching creative writing to German college-bound high-school students. After returning to the United States, she worked in the Literacy Division of World Education, a nonprofit organization focused on basic education and healthcare for adults. There she supported the organization's Literacy Division, the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), and the Massachusetts-based System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES). Inspired by this work, she completed graduate work in speech-language pathology and received a Master of Science in Communication Disorders from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. In her free time, Kim can be found in the silversmithing studio, on a sailboat, at a desk writing, or on adventures with her fun daughter and dog. |