Kaitlyn Johnston Minchin, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric acute and critical care speech-language pathologist at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and at Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Kaitlyn taught as a Fulbright in Hong Kong prior to her speech-language pathology days. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences about various topics including posterior fossa syndrome, the SLP role in ICU Liberation, and AAC in the hospital setting. Kaitlyn's clinical and research interests are diverse, but she has a particular interest in AAC in the acute/critical care setting and quality of life in infants and children with tracheostomy.