Alissa Hughes-

SLP, medical mom, ASL expert, disability ally and advocate, early intervention advocate & writer

Alissa Hughes is an Indiana-licensed, ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) since 2013. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Psychology minor) at Butler University and her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Indiana University Bloomington. She’s worked for years as an IN First Steps early interventionist, with adults in the subacute and home health settings, and for the past two years in an outpatient pediatric clinic.

In 2019, Alissa’s job as an SLP became personal when she became a medical mom herself. Alissa has two children (Hayley- age 5) and Tripp (age-3). Tripp was diagnosed with heart disease prenatally, and then CHARGE syndrome when he was born. He has single-sided deafness and wears BAHA hearing aids and has had 10 surgeries thus far in his short life (3 open-heart surgeries). Alissa’s personal passion and mission is equipping parents to access answers about development, whenever the need arises.