Our Free Services
encouraging children to overcome lives challenges
Free evaluation, treatment, and advocacy to learning and communication challenged children. Intervention is based on each child and family's unique strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Services are provided to children between 18 months and 15 years of age. To receive services complete our application to be placed on our waiting list.
Our Story
Our Director
Tom Tatum Speech Language Pathologist
Tom was born in Tulsa Oklahoma and grew up in 5 different states until settling in Guam where he went to Junior and High School. He played football and baseball at Fresno City College. Tom has 3 married sons and 9 grandchildren. He and his wife Maureen enjoy baking, gardening and raising cattle. Tom has actively participated in scuba diving, snow skiing, wake boarding, and car racing as hobbies.
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Tom graduated from California State University Fresno with a BA in Psychology,Communication Disorders and a MA in Speech Pathology. He went into private practice in 1983 and has provided speech, language and swallowing therapy services throughout the Central Valley serving children and adults. In 1990 Tom began working with the Scottish Rite to build the Childhood Language Disorders Center. The Center sees children with language, learning and literacy challenges. The Center has raised over 6 million dollars to treat 4,000 childr en in 30 years.
Our Partners
To receive free speech, language and learning services Email us your information. We will send you an application so you can tell us more about your child's needs