Learn from the clinicians who built the field
FunctionFocus is taught by working clinicians, not lecturers. Every course pairs decades of hands-on practice with the interdisciplinary, function-first philosophy that has trained thousands of professionals across the globe.
Mary Billings
MS, CCC-SLP
Founder & Lead Instructor
Mary Billings, MS, CCC-SLP, founded FunctionFocus Academy in 2013 out of years of interdisciplinary research and mentoring. Her work in orofacial myofunctional disorders began in 2007, focused from the start on collaboration across therapeutic and medical disciplines.
In 2008 she chaired the IAOM's first Mentoring Committee, growing it from four members to fifteen. By 2012 she had launched the flagship Make The Connection course, reflecting her mission to deepen the clinical understanding of OMD. She has since trained thousands of professionals worldwide.
Teaches Make The Connection OMD: Advances in Therapy Extend The Connection
Patricia Fisher
MA, CCC-SLP
Co-Instructor
Patricia Fisher, MA, CCC-SLP, joined FunctionFocus as co-instructor, bringing the depth of a long career in private practice in Ohio. She is known for her command of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and the hands-on technique work at the heart of every FunctionFocus course.
Pat also teaches the academy's on-demand PNF course, extending her technique work to clinicians who can't yet make it to an in-person date.
Teaches Make The Connection OMD: Advances in Therapy Extend The Connection Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
Dr. Charles Beck
DO
Guest Faculty
Dr. Charles Beck, DO, is an osteopathic physician and the newest member of the FunctionFocus teaching staff. He brings the airway, breathing, and whole-body perspective that makes the academy's interdisciplinary approach more than a slogan.
Dr. Beck teaches in OMD: Advances in Therapy, where the complex airway and structural cases benefit most from a physician's lens alongside the SLP's.
Teaches OMD: Advances in Therapy
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