Fern Sussman

Fern Sussman is a speech-language pathologist and the former clinical program director of Autism Services at the Hanen Centre. Fern is also the author of the Hanen Centre's More Than Words and TalkAbility guidebooks. In addition, she has developed two Hanen Programs for parents by the same names. These parent-implemented early language intervention programs are offered by Hanen trained clinicians around the world. Ms. Sussman has devoted her career to giving parents the knowledge and skills to become their children's very best language facilitators.