With over 20 years experience in a variety of settings, Sharon specializes in developmental speech and language and feeding/swallowing needs. She specializes in working with children and adolescents with complex medical needs and Autism.
Cassandra has 20 years of experience working with the pediatric population. Her interest areas include language learning differences, social/pragmatic language skills and executive functioning skills, and phonologically based learning difficulties, including reading support as a Trained Dyslexia Professional.
Judy has over 25 years experience working in administrative roles to help children. She felt truly blessed when she became part of the ACTC team and enjoys her position tremendously. She hopes to always help you and your children feel welcome and at ease!
Lila is currently completing her Associate of Arts at AB-Tech with plans to go onto a four-year university to study arts or nonprofit administration. She loves to help people, and hopes to make the process of accessing therapies as easy as possible for our ACTC families.
Sallie received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Regis University in Denver, CO (2016) and has worked in various pediatric settings over the past 8 years. Sallie has a passion for neuro- and sensorimotor development and there’s not a single baby that doesn’t make her smile. She loves to engage with her community by providing quality, evidence-based, and individualized pediatric PT services to children of all abilities. She has practiced in a variety of pediatric settings, including early intervention (0-3), school-based, outpatient clinic, and home/community-based.
Sallie provides in-home services to our early intervention clients in Haywood county.
Overall, 2.3% to 24.6% of school-aged children were estimated to have speech delay or speech sound disorders (Black, Vahratian, & Hoffman, 2015; Law, Boyle, Harris, Harkness, & Nye, 2000; Shriberg, Tomblin, & McSweeny, 1999; Wren, Miller, Peters, Emond, & Roulstone, 2016).
These include sound errors related to motor and phonological processes. We work to establish, generalize, and maintain correct sound production by meeting the child where they are, using techniques and activities that are fun and engaging, working with families to educate and empower, and collaborating with schools or other professionals as needed to see the most progress.
The prevalence of specific language impairment for kindergarten children has been widely cited as 7.4% overall in the United States (Tomblin et al., 1997).
Our goal for treatment is to stimulate overall language growth by working directly with our clients and their families to focus on the greatest area of need, enhance current skills, target developmentally appropriate needs, and enhance overall learning.
Using different definitions of SCD, the preliminary estimates of SCD in eighth graders ranged from 7% to 11% (Ellis Weismer, Tomblin, et al., 2021)
This area includes pragmatics, social interaction, social cognition, and language processing. We aim to capitalize on strengths and embrace differences in our clients in order to meet them where they are and see improvement overall with understanding and use of social communication. We offer individual session as well as parent/caregiver consultative training sessions to help the entire team in the treatment process.
This is a group of interrelated cognitive processes, including but not limited to controlling initiation and inhibition; sustaining and shifting attention; organization; goal setting, and completion; and determining plans. EF can affect all areas of life from completing activities of daily living to communicating effectively with those in your everyday world. EF skills can be addressed from the ages of early intervention and go all the way to teens. Working on focus, understanding how we each interact with our world, problem solving, critical thinking skills, and planning are a few areas we focus on with clients who have needs in this area.
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