Staff

Cheri Stevenson

Therapy Director

Cheri Stevenson, M.S., CCC-SLP, director of therapy at ACCESS Group Inc., is responsible for day-to-day management of the organization’s therapy department and manages the ACCESS Evaluation and Resource Center (AERC).

Prior to joining ACCESS in 1998, Stevenson administered speech-language evaluations and diagnostics for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the Department of Pediatrics at the Dennis Developmental Center. Before that, she provided early intervention therapy and diagnostics for the birth-to-2 program at Easter Seals Arkansas. A graduate of UAMS and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, she has a master’s degree in communication disorders. She received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ouachita Baptist University.

At ACCESS, Stevenson specializes in diagnostics for children ages 3 to 12 and serves as the lead speech-language pathologist on the AERC staff when diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. She is certified in The DuBard Association Method™ and Interactive Metronome.

Stevenson is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, where she serves as the representative for the Therapy Advisory Council for Medicaid and QSource.

Stevenson's speaking engagements include:

Presenter, Autism Spectrum Disorders: Warning Signs and Early Intervention, A Child's Voice Autism Foundation (2010)
Presenter, Recognize, Evaluate and Treat Students Who Learn Differently, Arkansas Education Alliance (2010)