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Helping children communicate one Small Step at a time Big Change in Life Resulted in One SLP Creating Small Steps in Speech February 12 is a day anyone who was privileged to know Marc Small will never forget. On that day in 2009 Marcthen my fiancelost his life in Afghanistan serving our nation as an Army Special Forces medical sergeant. Instead of planning our wedding I launched a nonprofit in his memory called Small Steps in Speech. I shared the story oflaunching the organization in a Leader article which also explains how Marc thought of the name originally for my future private practice.