Aisha Alfadhalah, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, is a trilingual Speech-Language Pathologist. She worked at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute for 7 years, where she specialized in Autism intervention. She focuses on the treatment and evaluation of multilingual students with autism. Currently, she works in parent and teacher training projects with Autism Parent Platform. Her research interest is in the field of multilingualism, specifically the importance of maintaining the home language to develop the cultural and linguistic identities of children with and without developmental disabilities.