ASHA Certified Speech-Language Pathologists

Linda K Swank, PhD, CCC-SLP Dr. Swank received her BA and MA from Wichita State University and the PhD from the University of Kansas. She taught for several years at the University of Virginia, prior to returning to Wichita State, as Chairperson of the Department of Communicative Disorders & Sciences. Dr. Swank is a nationally recognized speaker on dyslexia, oral and written language acquisition and disorders across the life span. Dr. Swank is co-author of the curriculum-embedded assessment of Phonological Awareness and Literacy Skills (PALS).


Services

Differential Diagnosis of Oral and Written Language to determine Individual Education Plans (IEP) or 504 Plans for Primary, Intermediate, and Secondary students following the procedures established by the Texas Education Agency in February 2001, The Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders.

Development of IEP or 504 Plan in a collaborative model with family, school and community. This planning will identify appropriate accommodations for students who present with Dyslexia for test-taking and other classroom performance requirements.

Direct Therapy Intervention using multimodality approaches including The Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing Program (LIPS), PALS-Phonological Awareness & Literacy Skills Earobics, current research-based reading approaches.

Consultation With Educators & Professional Development Seminars (19 TAC 74.28):
Domains to Assess when testing for Dyslexia
Identification of students with Dyslexia
Instruction for students who present with Dyslexia
Referral to Special Education

Multi-Modality Therapy
Language-Learning & Academic Success


Dyslexia Characteristics:

Difficulty reading single words in isolation
Difficulty accurately decoding nonsense or unfamiliar words
Slow, inaccurate or labored oral reading (lack of reading fluency)
Poor Reading Comprehension
Poor Spelling
Mumbled speech with multisyllable words


Dyslexia is the Result of:.

Difficulty with the development of phonological awareness, including segmenting, blending,
rhyming & manipulating sounds in words
Difficulty learning the names of letters and their associated sounds
Difficulty with phonological memory (remembering phone numbers, or addresses, or verbal
directions)
Difficulty with rapid naming of familiar objects, colors, or letters of the alphabet and word
finding.