The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) at http://www.asha.org is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 members and affiliates who are speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.

Marie Hendrix is a licensed speech language pathologist and a certified member of ASHA.  She is the founder and owner of Speech Care, Inc and provides speech language pathology services to schools, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, and outpatient clinics in North East Georgia.

Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning at http://decal.ga.gov/ is responsible for meeting the child care and early education needs of Georgia’s children and their families. Bright from the Start oversees a wide range of programs focused primarily on children ages birth to school age and their families.

Marie is an approved trainer for Georgia Early Care and Education Professional Development System. She provides various approved training opportunities for Child Care Professionals through Decoding Kids.
Active Parenting,http://www.activeparenting.com/parents.htmwas founded in 1980 by Dr. Michael H. Popkin, a former child and family therapist and Coordinator of Child and Family Services for Northside Community Mental Health Centers in Atlanta, Georgia. APP delivers quality education programs for parents, children and teachers to schools, hospitals, social services organizations, churches and the corporate market. The Active Parenting model is heavily based upon the theories of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs.

Marie is a certified trainer of trainers for Active Parenting Now and Active Parenting for Teens and offers parent and teen training classes.

Links

American Association of Mental Retardation (AAIDD) – http://www.aamr.org/

American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) – http://www.aota.org/

Autism Collaboration – http://www.autism.org/

Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing – http://www.cdhh.org/

National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) – http://www.ndss.org/

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson’s blog – http://asktheslp.blogspot.com/

Traumatic Brain Injury (NINDS) – http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/tbi.htm

Babies Can’t Wait – http://health.state.ga.us/programs/bcw/

GA PINES/INSIGHT – http://education.gsu.edu/georgiadeafblindproj/article-pines.htm/

The Hanen Centre – http://www.hanen.org/

Zero to Three- http://zerotothree.org