Hi! I’m Abby, a Maryland mom of two young children and an early intervention Speech Pathologist. Throughout my work as an SLP, I’ve had the opportunity to attend multiple professional development trainings and dive into research about Learning and Movement.

Since having my own children, it has become something I am extremely passionate about. As a a family, we previously chose to send our children to a local Montessori School. This specific schools’ philosophy allowed for hours of outdoor learning and play each day. We absolutely loved it, and our children thrived. All up until the school abruptly closed in August 2026. Since then, my search for schools and daycares revealed a lack of outdoor movement time. This ignited my passion further to advocate for more unstructured outdoor play for all Maryland children.

Playing Capture the Flag and memory games like “Concentration” and “Miss Mary Mack.”