Adria Thompson

Adria Thompson is a speech language pathologist (SLP), dementia educator, and owner of Be Light Care Consulting. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Kentucky University with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Communication Disorders. Since graduation, her continuing education coursework has been primarily in the area of dementia care and cognitive communication disorders.

Over the last eight years as an SLP, she has worked with geriatrics in long-term care communities providing one-on-one speech therapy services for disorders related to cognition, communication, and dysphagia. Her specialty and passion quickly grew in working with individuals with dementia. In 2018, she coauthored a dementia program after being recognized for the effective, creative, and quality-of-life-changing treatments she was providing to residents in a memory care community. This program was developed to train other therapists in how to provide more effective and creative treatment with improved outcomes with individuals with dementia. It has since been implemented in 14 states and over 150 care communities.

She started Be Light Care Consulting in September 2021 with the goal of providing easily digestible, accessible, and simple dementia education, tricks, and tips for professional and personal caregivers. Since then, she has been featured on numerous podcasts, articles, and has presented continuing education courses for social workers and speech language pathologists. She creates daily content for over 220,000 caregivers of individuals with dementia on social media platforms in a relatable, positive way that makes dementia seem a little less scary.