Karen Dudek-Brannan
I’m Karen Dudek-Brannan, and I’m a Professional Development and Learning Specialist, SLP, and founder/owner/operator of Dr. Karen, LLC, a company focused on empowering therapists and educators to design interventions that support language, literacy, and executive functioning. In my current role, I develop engaging professional development and products that help school teams work together to get better results.
You can listen to the De Facto Leaders podcast at drkarendudekbrannan.com/blog
Get my Ultimate Guide to Sentence Structure for SLPs at drkarenspeech.com/sentencestructure
Sign up for my "5 Component Language Therapy System at drkarenspeech.com/language
Get my Executive Functioning Implementation Guide for school teams at drkarendudekbrannan.com/efschools
Sign up for my "How to be evidence-based and neurodiversity affirming (by supporting executive functioning)" training at drkarendudekbrannan.com/efleadership
De Facto Leaders EP 221: From Plateau to Progress: Language Therapy Case Studies
De Facto Leaders EP 220: C.L. Series Part 3: Asset Stacking: Building Your Path to Systemic Impact
De Facto Leaders EP 219: C.L Series Part 2: Scaling Your Expertise Beyond the Therapy Room
De Facto Leaders EP 218: Clinical Leadership Series Part 1: Claiming Your Seat at the Table
De Facto Leaders EP 217: Embracing Cross-Pollination, High-Quality Tutoring, and Agile Leadership
De Facto Leaders EP 216: The School Leader's Guide to Executive Functioning Support
De Facto Leaders EP 215: Executive Functioning Summer Camp (with Eric Smith)
LTA Insider's Q & A 5-13-2025 Orthographic Processing and Word Retrieval Case Study
De Facto Leaders EP 214: A Speech Pathologist's Journey Through Brain Surgery and Recovery
De Facto Leaders EP 213: SEEing to Lead: Collaborating for Better Literacy with Karen Dudek-Brannan
De Facto Leaders EP 212: Re-Release: ADHD and the Appeal to Nature Fallacy
Lori Nagel Testimonial for Dr. Karen's Language Therapy Advance Foundations
De Facto Leaders EP 211: "The Art of Decluttering and Habit Stacking for Clinicians
De Facto Leaders EP 210: Goals and Accommodations for Executive Functioning
De Facto Leaders EP 209: FAQs: Task-based goals vs. strategy goals, scaffolding for semantics...
De Facto Leaders EP 208: Making professional development and programming goals meaningful
De Facto Leaders EP 207: Failure to launch, screen addiction, and preparing kids for life
Using frontloading to support students' executive functioning.
Empowering Your Team to Support Executive Functioning Across All Settings
Executive Functioing Support Challenges with Common Service Delivery Models
Why aren't checklists helping my students be more organized?
What is Executive Functioning? (Describing Internal Mental Processes)
External Signs of EF Issues
De Facto Leaders EP 206: FAQs: What if my district is still promoting three-cueing?
De Facto Leaders EP 205: Using the essential 5 to build vocabulary and syntax in secondary school
LTA Insiders Club Live Q & A 3-4-2025 Part 2
LTA Insiders 3-4-2025 Writing strategies, work refusal, natural consequences Part 1
De Facto Leaders EP 204: Using digital resources to improve team collaboration and combat therapist
De Facto Leaders EP 203: Frontloading, explicit instruction, and providing the “right” support
De Facto Leaders EP 202: Public perception of educ, positive role models, and keeping good leaders