Baton Rouge speech therapist using skills as a hairdresser to provide sensory hairstyles – WBRZ

Baton Rouge – a local speech pathologist uses his skills as a hairdresser to help provide hairstyles for those with sensory and physical disabilities.

Her name is Madeline Johnson and she owns Miss Madeline’s LLC.

“So, if you have some kind of physical or sensory impairment or just any special need as a whole, I have the necessary patience and skills to help them have a pleasant experience with a hairstyle,” Johnson said.

Johnson says her useful nature has come from her family, which has always been intended to help others. Her mother Anna Johnson is a professional therapist.

“My father is actually a physiotherapist. Her sister was also a pathologist. So she always had that heart to help people,” Anna said.

Johnson said he wanted to become a speech therapist after watching a child with Down Syndrome while she was in high school. She went to LSU for college.

“I started my primary family research for children and then in the end I took a communication disorder and I just wanted to stick to it. I ran with it and never stopped, but I also never stopped doing hair.”

While Johnson was in graduation, she also received her cosmetology license. Then her idea came: combine the skills of both fields and provide sensory hairstyles.

She talks about the first sensory hairstyle she gave.

“He was a little boy. He had autism and did not like the feelings of clippers or scissors, so I introduced them slowly and he managed to get used to the feeling. We just took time and were a patient.

She has recently started partnerships with several salons in the area of ​​Baton Rouge to hold Sunday Sunday, which are hairstyles for those with sensory problems.

One of them is the Salon Du Sud on Bluebonnet Boulevard. Johnson told WBRZ about some therapy tactics he learned as a speech therapist who proved to be very useful in hair care.

“The Zumer of the Clippers is the biggest I have learned so far so we start on our feet and the look we work up to the head. If they have to be on the floor, we can be on the floor if they have to be on the chair we can We are in the chair.

Its purpose is to open a lounge in Baton Rouge specifically for those with sensory problems.

Johnson says she will also go to various schools and clinics in the area of ​​Baton Rouge to cut hair for children with sensory.