Rite Care - News

 

HELLO AGAIN from the Scottish Rite Childhood Speech and Language Center! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing summer. It’s that time of year again and the therapists and staff at the clinic are getting back into the school routine.
 

We just re-established our contract with The Cathedral School of Mary Our Queen and will be providing services to the students three days per week through- out the 2011–2012 school year. In addition, speech and language screenings are scheduled and will be completed in the upcoming months. We offer our services to the private schools in our surrounding neighborhood. Teachers and parents can make a request for screenings based on any speech or language concerns they may have regarding their children. Many of these children who are eligible begin therapy at the Scottish Rite clinic.
 

I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of the Scottish Rite Clinic family—Melissa Sechler. Melissa is a graduate student at Towson University and she is also a Brockman Fellowship recipient. Melissa began interning with us in the fall and will continue to work with the clients and families at the clinic throughout the semester. She has been a wonderful addition to our center and we thank her for all of her hard work and creative therapy ideas!

As always, the Scottish Rite Woman’s Club has been extremely generous and continues to give us the opportunity to purchase new items for the children and updated technology to help the staff run our center smoothly and efficiently. This year, they graciously provided us with many new toys and workbooks to use with the children at our center. We also may use their donation to attend a speech-language pathology convention sponsored by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association in San Diego, California in November. We thank them for their continued support of our profession!

 

In an effort to promote our clinic in the surround- ing community and inform the public of the services we provide, we recently placed advertisements for our center in the Frederick News-Post. In response to these ads, we have scheduled three comprehensive language evaluations! If you know of anyone who may benefit from a speech or language assessment, please contact us at 410-243-3800 for more information. Feel free to stop by and visit us in the clinic at any time!