About us

Our team

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Katya Hill, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Katya Hill, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an internationally recognized clinician in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and evidence-based practice. Dr. Hill has over thirty years of clinical experience with clients across the lifespan with complex communication and medical disorders along with years of teaching experience.  She may be found working with children on the floor during a play therapy session while her next client may be an adult in the late stage of a degenerative neurological disability.  She is the Executive Director/Clinical Supervisor and a co-founder of the AAC Institute. Dr. Hill has been the force behind the research and development of Language Activity Monitoring (LAM) tools.
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Michael O’Leary, MS, CCC-SLP

Michael earned his Master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Loyola University Maryland in 2011 and a Bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 2009. He joined the ICAN™ Talk Clinic in 2013. He previously worked for the Anne Arundel County Public School system in Annapolis, Maryland, where he diagnosed and treated speech and language deficits in middle and high school students. He currently provides outpatient therapy at the ICAN™ Talk Clinic in downtown Pittsburgh and at the PLEA School in Wilkinsburg, which specializes in educating children with severe learning and behavioral disorders.
Shannon Carney
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​Shannon has been in healthcare/office management for over 20 years. She specializes in medical billing and coding. Shannon also coordinates care between specialties for clients and assists with medical record management. Shannon operates and coordinates the AAC Institute continuing education department for professionals. She is passionate in advocating for the community. As a parent of a special needs child, she understands the obstacles that one may encounter. While living in Vermont, she founded and operated a support group for parent's of special needs children. She has continued this work here in Pennsylvania with the AAC Parents group.  
​ICAN Talk Clinic is honored by the many Speech Language Pathologists who choose to complete their Clinical Fellowship (CF) with us and are now providing quality clinical services in a variety of employment settings.  Also, we are proud of the University of Pittsburgh Masters and CScD students we have provided AAC clinical training.  We are an employment opportunity for SLPs enrolled in the CScD program and an in-network clinical placement site for graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh.