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Austin's Communication Station Inc.
Speech-Language Pathologist
Austin, TX 78757
Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy
Austin’s Communication Station is a small, privately owned speech therapy clinic in Austin, Texas. The clinic’s owner, Amy Bartelt MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA, was inspired to create this business to help families get unique and individualized plans of care and treatment based on the particular needs of each child and his/her family. At Austin’s Communication Station we believe that every child is different. Therefore our approach to helping them and their families should be different for every child. Our staff of speech-language pathologists have specialized training in a variety of areas including applied behavior analysis, Hanen Language Approach, Michelle Garcia Winner programming, Oral Motor techniques, LindaMood Bell techniques, as well as many other pediatric therapy techniques. The speech pathologists at Austin’s Communication Station have experience working with children with a variety of diagnoses, including: autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, speech and language delay, fluency disorder, articulation/phonological impairment, cognitive impairment, learning disabilities, developmental delay, developmental apraxia, and many others. We provide: Free screenings to determine if your child is in need of speech therapy Extensive individual evaluations to determine your child’s needs and design a personalized plan of care for your child. Individual speech therapy sessions — Allow children to achieve their speech and language goals in a very individualized speech session. The SLP will plan sessions with your child's goals in mind and choose materials and activities that he/she will respond best to. Group therapy sessions — Utilizing social thinking and social cognitive strategies (by Michelle Garcia Winner) to improve the social communication skills of children with peers.  “Parent Talk Time” after every session to help parents feel connected with the therapist and understand what they can do at home to help their child progress.
Reading Plus Of Austin
Speech-Language Pathologist
Austin, TX 78749
Ginny Garrison West, Reading Plus of Austin
Certified Academic Language/Dyslexia Therapist
Ginny has two degrees in English, plus an all-level teaching certification (grades 1-12), from the University of Texas-Austin, as well as 18 hours toward a doctorate at Texas State University. She has been working as a Certified Academic Language Therapist, and now as a Licensed Dyselxia Therapist, for 20 years. She also has been a dyslexia therapist in the capacity of tester and therapist for two school districts, and as well as a private consultant, for 20 years. She has access to and experience in several scientific learning programs (which she either uses in their entirety or pulls from) to create tailored reading, spelling, and writing programs specifically geared for success with each individual child. These heavily researched and scientifically-based programs include: "Basic Language Skills" (used at Rawson-Saunders School in Austin); Scottish Rite Learning Center's "Take Flight Language Program"; Lindamood Bell Company's "Visualizing and Verbalizing," "Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing," and "Seeing Stars" programs; and "Project Read." Ginny is also able to use her experience treaching honors English and in college debate to work with students' wriitng and honing their receptive/expressive lanuage skills. She works with students from pre-schoolers through adults. Ginny also works with elementary students who have learning disabilities involving mathematics, using the Lindamood-Bell "On Cloud Nine" program. Parent references describing successes are furnished upon request. Insurance Note: Due to recent licensing requirements implemented by the Texas Department of Health, many insurance companies now provide benefits for language and dyslexia therapy. Ginny can provide formal billing statements to facilitate the processing of insurance claims.
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