Statewide Support Group (VIRTUAL)

Come together with other caregivers to receive the support and wisdom needed as you care for your loved ones.

Maggie (McCormick) Kalinec is a Speech Language Pathologist with a passion for rehabilitation and acquired brain injury. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, received her master's at the University of Texas, Dallas in 2011, and obtained her ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence in 2012. Maggie started her career in the Baylor Rehab Hospital Day Neuro program working with adults with acquired brain injury then Maggie relocated, in 2013, back home to Delaware to join the Nemours Pediatric rehab team. During her career, Maggie has worked to specialize in the assessment and treatment of cognitive communication disorders, dysphagia, and the management of trach/vents. Maggie’s started her private practice, Defy Therapy Services, in 2018 and is excited to partner DE Physiatry to help meet the ongoing needs of survivors and caregivers.

BIADE Support Groups are for all people with brain injuries and the caregivers, partners, and helping friends of people with a brain injury. We are a discrimination FREE zone. People are free to speak their minds and be who they are. We have created an educational and emotional support system within the group believing that everyone in the group has significant value and important insights; the support group relies on all members' input for decisions about speakers, activities, interests, references, and self-help.

Our Support Groups are dynamic and interactive, rich with insightful and supportive input from all, and yet flexible to the needs of others at any given meeting. This is not a therapeutic group. We are not qualified to engage in therapy. Group members offer referrals for various services they have found useful from counseling to adaptive equipment and beyond.