Inclusive Education Project Podcast

Welcome to the official start of summer and to our exciting conversation with author, innovator, researcher,  educator and teacher, and entrepreneur, Barbara Fernandes, as we discuss her involvement in technology.  Barbara Fernandes, an award-winning Brazilian-American Speech-Language Pathologist, immigrated to the United States as an adult with very limited English skills. She went on to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in her field, founding two businesses and revolutionizing her field with nearly seventy successful product launches to date. She has released 70 apps in the iOS app store. Show Highlights: Barbara shares what initially drew her into technology and how she decided to continue working in her field. Barbara knew what types of technology was needed in the speech-language field, so building the apps related to speech-language was a natural fit. Barbara tells about her development of Smarty Symbols, which has been adopted as the symbol of choice in many other technology t