CUE Communication Universally Empowers

CUE Communication Universally Empowers We offer in-clinic (or onsite small radius around downtown Cary) language, regulation and feeding intensive services to children 0-18 years of age.

We offer virtual consultation to families around the world

02/24/2026

You want therapy to get functional in the clinic?

Invite a sibling.

The minute a sibling joins, real life walks in the door.

🔸Built-in support
🔸Real conflict (and repair)
🔸A safe space to try new things
🔸A functional (and inspiring) model to mirror
🔸Opportunity to coach sibling in supportive strategies

Does the focus feel a little more spread out sometimes?
Yes.

Is the carryover infinitely more powerful?
Also yes.

Because therapy isn’t about perfect reps in a quiet room.
It’s about the child, what happens at home, in the car, and at the dinner table.

Let’s get a little messy.
Invite the sibling.
What what unfolds.

02/23/2026

Wow did you catch the last days of the Olympics?

No.
I honestly don’t know what happened the past two days.

Our family was actively surviving. My autistic daughter was in burnout.

I barely saw my husband because we’re were tag-teaming to keep our youngest safe and our oldest feeling safe and regulated.

She needed me near her almost constantly.

Her nervous system had no margin.

Any amount of frustration felt enormous to her.
A subtle shift in tone could activate her.
She wanted to move-but burnout affects her coordination and she kept getting hurt.

I got a text from her. 📲

She decided to walk around the neighborhood in the rain. ☔️

She knew what she needed.
The rain. Solidtude. The movement.
Her executive functioning starred coming back online.
She was thinking ahead, problem solving. Planning how to be comfortable after getting soaking but still wanting to go to the store with me.

This weekend was hard.

But I love exeperiencing her learn to trust her own intuition.
To honor what her body needs.
To build the self-help skills that will carry her long after I’m not beside her.

She exhausts me.
She inspires me.

autisticgirl

02/19/2026

Running a clinic isn’t included in a highlight reel

It’s sweeping floors.
Cleaning bathrooms.
Wiping down tables and feeding chairs.
Watering plants.
Vacuuming the remnants of an art project or a feeding session.

It’s being the therapist, the custodian, the marketing director, the bookkeeper, the bird feeder, and the facilities department.

It’s building something from the ground up’s and tending to it daily so our clients feel like it is a space just for them when they arrive.

All the invisible work in the background allows me to create a clean safe space. One in which the giggles of joy seep through the walls and the idea of change starts to take shape into reality.

The clinical magic doesn’t happen instead of the grit. It happens because of it.

02/18/2026

Diplomacy

This was not just words.
This was layers of skills wrapped up into one interaction.

Perspective taking.
Recognizing what my agenda/desire was.
Honoring his own preferences.
Using language as a gentle nudge-not to overpower, not to copy-but to create mutual understanding.

For a gestalt language processor, this is high-level integration.
This is flexible language.
This is relational awareness.

It was powerful.
I adored being in the room to witness it.

02/17/2026

A poem to my white hairs.



Sometimes the bravest thing a clinician can say is, “This isn’t working…and I’m open to another way.”It’s about asking t...
02/13/2026

Sometimes the bravest thing a clinician can say is, “This isn’t working…and I’m open to another way.”

It’s about asking the why, listening to the child’s nervous system and being willing to unlearn worn something no longer fits.

Growth in our field requires both evidence and reflection.

02/12/2026

When a child reaches the highest level of gestalt use, they may start to sound like an analytic language processor.

That is because the child’s gestalts are very flexible and now include:
•Mixing and matching gestalts
•Inserting, deleting, and switching single words in and out of a gestalt
•Modifying, adding, removing grammatical components

This little guy demonstrates beatifically what the highest levels of gestalt use look like. He also shares his super skills with Avengers knowledge.

Just in the first minute of this video we a lot of grammar integrated into flexible gestalts:
•where
•verb-“to be”
•present progressing form of a verb-“climbing
•pronoun-“the other”
•indirect reported speech- “that WAS a long slide”
•preposition-“like Lizard’s”
•adverb- “nope”
•pronoun + article conjunction- “she’s”
•pronoun +article conjunction- “he’s”

Flexibility of gestalts is a super hero power for self-expression.

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Cary, NC

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm

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+19198026122

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About Us:

C.U.E. is a small private practice owned by a speech-language pathologist. We conduct therapy with a strong focus on researched based, and functional treatment approaches. Therapy is conducted in the client’s natural and unsterile environment so skills learned are immediately applied to daily life. We specialize in language disorders, individuals on the Autism Spectrum, and treating in Spanish. However, we are passionate about treating children and families with a variety of needs.

Our Promise:

To provide high-quality therapy that achieves your family's goals through researched based treatment techniques. We recognize caregivers and family as the most valuable tool to help children achieve their highest potential. Caregivers and family members will feel empowered to support their loved one through education, modeling, and cuing, so treatment techniques are easily integrated into daily activities.