Born in Romania, Alina was always clear that she wanted to find a profession where she could make an impact on society. This led her to explore opportunities beyond her borders at the age of 16. She arrived in Spain without previously knowing the language, and after taking her only three months to learn it, she discovered that the profession she was looking for was going to be speech therapist.

While studying the Degree in Speech Therapy at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Alina combined her studies with another of her great vocations, childcare, where she had the opportunity to identify for the first time the importance of language development and communication at an early age. For this reason, she decided to specialize in developmental and learning disorders. Later, she would complete his training in this area by obtaining the Master’s Degree in Early Intervention at the UCM.

However, what truly marked Alina’s professional future was her brother, who from a young age showed serious difficulties with social interaction and the use of language. Her curiosity and desire to deepen her knowledge made her do the university internship at the Leo Kanner Special Education College of the Association of Parents of People with Autism (APNA), where she later worked for 4 years. She combined this work with collaborations as a speech therapist for different Early Care Centers and with speech therapy services at home with patients with speech, language, literacy and atypical swallowing disorders.

Throughout this stage, Alina completed the Post Graduate Degree in Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder by the UNED and became one of the first certified therapists in Spain in the PACT methodology (Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy), a specific communication therapy for children with autism or needs in the field of social communication developed at the University of Manchester.

Her passion for the profession of speech therapist prompted her to share her knowledge by participating as a teacher in the APNA ASD Specialization Course and tutoring future professionals during their university internships.

She currently combines her clinical work as a bilingual speech therapist at SINEWS with her psychopedagogical labor at Kings College Soto de Viñuelas, where she has acquired conscience of the academic impact that language difficulties have.