Sarah Hovnanian completed her training through the International Association for Spelling as Communication, to become a certified Spelling to Communicate (S2C) Practitioner. She has spent the past 14 years working full-time as a licensed New York State public school teacher, with a Master's Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). She is certified K-12 within public schools and has worked with children, teenagers, and adults of all age groups throughout her career thus far. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech from Emerson College. Sarah is a published author of two children's books in a series called, "Haik Sings His Words," in which she writes about her son's journey as an Autistic, dyspraxic, hyperlexic, and unreliably speaking little boy, who also happens to be a Gestalt Language and Cognitive Processor; truly a musical kid who has developed language through song. Her son has always been fascinated by the written word and has a passionate interest in letters and numbers. Sarah has recently started guiding and coaching her son's purposeful gross motor movements and continues to feed his brain with age-appropriate material through read-alouds, audiobooks, and song! Sarah is also a Certified Adaptive Personal Trainer, receiving her training from Strong Education, which is nationally accredited with over ten organizations, including NASM, ACE, and ISSA. She intends to use this credential to enrich her sessions with her Speller clients by creating intentional motor exercises tailored to their individual sensory and motor needs. 

Providing motor-based AAC access to her son and all nonspeakers & unreliable speakers has become her life's mission. As a writer herself, she is passionate about revealing her clients' inner voices to express themselves with autonomy and a sense of agency. Sarah believes all communication comes "Write" From The Heart...