AC Goldberg
AC GoldBerg, B.A. (Hons.), M.Sc. SLP (Reg. CASLPO), WPATH SLP (CCC), Ph.D.
AC Goldberg (he/him) is a transgender Speech/Language Pathologist who is licensed in the US and Canada. He began his career in hospitals where he faced various forms of workplace discrimination due to his transgender status. For the past 16 years, AC has primarily been a pediatric clinician, specializing in pragmatics, working with adolescents with complex neurological profiles. In addition, he has worked in the area of gender voice modification. AC is dedicated to ending the inadvertent mistreatment transgender/gender-nonconforming people face in educational, medical, and clinical settings. He offers cultural responsiveness, safe space, and active allyship training for all healthcare professionals and educators through his platform, @transplaining. AC is ASHA certified, SAC affiliated, registered with CASLPO, and a member of the WPATH.
AC holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropological linguistics from Vassar College and a Master of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Boston University. After completion of his Master’s degree, AC studied for a Ph.D in neurolinguistics at Oxford.
AC believes that everyone’s communication goals are best achieved through a trusting therapeutic relationship. He has a passion teaching his clients comfortable self-advocacy, especially in the face of mistreatment due to differences in their presentation. He has experience with gender voice modification, fluency disorders, articulation therapy, pragmatics and relationship dynamic interaction. AC will help you attain your ideal communication profile in a collaborative, comfortable manner
Mr. Goldberg is currently accepting new clients for:
- gender affirming voice therapy
- speech therapy
- professional and workplace communication
- lisps and "R" sounds
- voice therapy
- social therapy for adults with ASD or Axis II disorders
- social skills therapy for everyone
- professional communication training
- accent modification
- stuttering (adult fluency)
- private aphasia therapy
- concussions and traumatic brain injury
Gendered expectations and feedback influence our vocal presentations from a young age. When adults speak to children and assume their gender, they alter the pitch and tone of their voices.