WORK WITH ADAPTIVE PARENT PROJECT
For Professionals
Mentorship and consulting, continuing education courses, healthcare handouts and speaking for professionals, students and organizations.
Alesha Thomas is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), disability advocate, and speaker
And a parent with cerebral palsy. She founded the Adaptive Parent Project, growing it from a YouTube channel teaching adaptive parenting from a wheelchair into an international nonprofit empowering parents with disabilities. Drawing on her own four-year breastfeeding journey and lived experience, Alesha helps professionals, students, and organizations provide more inclusive, informed care. Her work has earned an Aerie Real Changemaker award and been featured in Forbes and at international breastfeeding conferences.
Bring your questions, a program you’re designing, or a challenge you’re navigating. Each consultation is a focused, practical conversation tailored to what you need.
Alesha’s expertise
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Stigma & bias in healthcare
How systems and providers can better serve disabled patients and parents.
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Adapting lactation & feeding
Respectful, practical strategies for families with disabilities.
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Parenting with a disability
Lived-experience guidance for programs and providers.
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Building inclusive programs
Support for clinics and organizations serving disabled populations.
How it works
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Choose a time
View Alesha’s availability below and pick a time that works for you.
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Pay securely
Confirm your paid session at booking with any major credit card.
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Get your Zoom link
A confirmation email arrives right away with your Zoom link and the details.
Courses for Professionals
Continuing education courses on supporting parents with disabilities. For talks, webinars and podcasts, see In the Media.
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Supporting Parents with Disabilities: Inclusive, Multidisciplinary Care for Lactation and Beyond
Online Course · Lactation Education Resources · November 2026
A continuing education course for lactation professionals (2.0 L-CERPs) on supporting parents with physical disabilities, covering positioning challenges, low-cost positioning solutions, building trust, and coordinating care with OT, social work and community programs.
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Adaptive Parenting Pro Bono Clinic (with Dr. Amy Lyons-Brown)
Online Course · Maternal Health OT · April 2026
A one-hour continuing education course (1.25 CE hours) on supporting parents with disabilities through a pro bono, transdisciplinary OT clinic, looking at everyday tasks like bathing, diapering and getting out in the community.
Healthcare Handouts for People with Disabilities
These handouts can be used by or distributed to individuals with disabilities and provide tips and resources for navigating healthcare as a person with a disability. These resources have been designed and written by and for people with disabilities and was reproduced in partnership with the California Department of Developmental Disabilities.
This download includes two-sided handouts for the following:
Help with Planning a Family for People with Disabilities
Sexuality for People with Disabilities
Breastfeeding Help for People with Disabilities
Parenting for People with Disabilities
Reproductive Health for People with Disabilities
Helping People with Disabilities with Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Primary Care for People with Disabilities
Dentistry for People with Disabilities
Book Alesha to Speak
Alesha speaks at conferences, trainings and webinars for lactation, healthcare and disability audiences. Topics include breastfeeding with a disability, adapting lactation and feeding care, stigma and bias in healthcare, and building inclusive programs. Tell us about your event and we’ll be in touch.