Manhattan Psychology Group

Dr. Lina Slim is a dually certified SLP & BCBA-D with over 38 years-experience, specializing her clinical practice on supporting families and their children with autism, neurodevelopmental and behavioral challenges, speech and language differences and apraxia, providing training, supervision, and consultations to practitioners across professional disciplines, cultures, and countries. She is founding executive director of ASAP – A Step Ahead Program, LLC, owner/president of Lina Slim Consulting, adjunct professor at Endicott College and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, ABA Programs. Her clinical and research interests focus on disseminating best practices in the application of the science of behavior analysis to support persons with autism and their families, establishing and maintaining effective functional verbal behaviors while promoting Interprofessional Culturally Aware, Responsive and Person-Centered Collaborative Practices (AICARe-Collaboration). Dr. Slim presents and consults nationally and internationally and has published several peer-reviewed research and book chapters. Dr. Slim is the recipient of the 2005 Children Empowerment Award and the 2014 New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NJSHA) Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award. She is Board of Director Member of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT), President-Elect of the Speech and Applied Behavior Analysis (SPABA) ABAI SIG and is an Advisor to boards on multiple organizations and educational programs that promote evidence-science-based interprofessional collaborative and culturally responsive practices. Dr. Slim brings a unique personal and behavior analytic perspective on interprofessional collaboration, cultural responsiveness, and humility, by drawing from her diverse cultural, linguistic, and professional background, as well as from her extensive clinical practice working with culturally and linguistically diverse families nationally and internationally.