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CORE — The Center for Outreach Education

 

contact: Amy Freedman, MS CCC-SLP

email: cush2128@aol.com

phone: 301-469-0223, ext. 240

comments: social skills groups offered.


Basic Concepts

6129 Executive Blvd

Rockville, MD 20852-3901

 

contact: Katherine Krienert, MS CCC-SLP

phone: 301-881-8175

comments: offers speech and language summer camp.


National Speech and language Therapy Center

5606 Shields Dr.

Wyngate Medical Park

Bethesda, MD 20817

 

phone: 301-493-0023

web site: www.nationalspeech.com

specialty:  FastForward, cognitive training programs (PACE and Master the Code) and summer camp offered.

phone: 301-493-0023


vision therapists

Dr. Harry Wachs, O.D., director

The Vision & Conceptual Development Center

2440 Virginia Ave. NW

Suite D102

Washington, DC, 20037-2638

 

phone: 202-862-0749

fax: 202-862-4988

home: 301-855-1654

comments: evaluates child first; can set up either a home-based program or see therapist at his office; vision therapy activities grounded in Piaget’s theory; explanation of payment policy scripted, like you would find when signing up for a diet program.


auditory integration therapy

The Spectrum Center
4715 Cordell Avenue, 4th Floor

Bethesda, MD 20814

 

phone: 301-657-0988
fax: 301-657-0989
email:
info@spectrumcenter.com
web site:
www.spectrumcenter.com
comments: some parents swear it works; others don’t. Very expensive (about $7,000+ for first three “loops.” Serves a large population of children on the autism spectrum.


 

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