Speech-Language Pathologist/Owner

Lisa Van Hofwegen, MA, CCC-SLP    

​​Lisa has a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders from the University of Houston. She has 17 years of experience in the field of speech-language pathology. Lisa has been in private practice since 2012 and worked at the Monarch School in Houston prior to that.​ Lisa uses the science of developmental language acquisition to guide her evaluation of and intervention with children. She has experience working with a variety of communication challenges but specializes in serving children on the autism spectrum and children with attention deficits.  Lisa incorporates play and physical activity into nearly all her sessions in order to help children sustain their interactions. Her approach is designed to support regulation, attention, engagement, social-emotional growth, and language development. She believes in working with the whole family to promote learning and generalization. Her ultimate goal is to help children reach their full potential.​​

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Lisa has completed several PhD classes through the ICDL Graduate School (now Fielding University) in the areas of: infant mental health and early childhood development, motor planning and sensory processing, language development, neuroscience, social-emotional development, human development, and research methods.  ​Lisa has attended training courses on many topics including DIR/Floortime®, sensory integration, motor planning, childhood apraxia of speech, literacy, ADHD, autism, mental health, joint attention, theory of mind, augmentative and alternative communication, pragmatic language, gestalt language processing, and early intervention. She has completed Foundations levels one and two of the Shanker Self-Reg course. ​

 

Prior to becoming a speech-language pathologist, Lisa taught piano lessons to children and adults. When not working directly with children, Lisa enjoys listening to neuroscience podcasts and taking road trips to geological points of interest with her husband, Dixon.​