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Functional Insight for Complex Brain Change

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The Founder

Sara Smiley is a board-certified speech and cognitive pathologist with more than two decades of experience treating individuals across that span. She has practiced in every major clinical setting including acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient clinics, home health, pediatrics, early intervention, and private practice. This broad clinical foundation allows her to evaluate and treat complex communication, cognitive, swallowing, and neuro-behavioral disorders from a whole-brain, neuro-developmental perspective.

 

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The M.I.N.D.

The M.I.N.D. Institute (Mind-shape Institute for Neuro-Depatterning) was founded to provide clear, functional evidence of cognitive, communication, speech, voice, and swallowing changes following injury — especially in cases where MRI or CT imaging appears normal but symptoms persist.