Maria Johnson, MA, CCC-SLP

With more than 20 years of clinical expertise working with individuals with neurodiverse minds, Maria is passionate about building awareness and connecting communities of social learners across the globe. To further enhance understanding of virtual learning and the important role cognition and perspective have on social brain health, her team’s work has now expanded programs from individual, research-focused studies to offering real-world opportunities for students, schools, and social coaches to take advantage of Charisma™ Virtual Social Coaching using BrainHealth®'s proprietary virtual platform.

Online Tool Empowers Kids With Social Learning Deficits via Real-Time, Virtual World Training and Interactions
The Brain Performance Institute at the Center for BrainHealth now offers Charisma services online for children struggling with social interaction, autism, ADHD, and low self-worth.

Socially Connecting While Physically Distancing
We know from the research that social connection is critical to improving brain performance and health.

The Amazing Results Are in on Virtual Social Learning
Cognitive strategies shown to improve emotion recognition, social reasoning, and self-confidence for youth on the autism spectrum.

Virtual Reality Can Help Kids Build Social Skills
Maria Johnson, MA, CCC - SLP, the director of youth and family innovations at Brain Performance Institute discusses Charisma™ with Bernadette Fiaschetti, of One Life Radio on iHeartRadio.