ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL INC
3160 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 www.atlantaspeechschool.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To help each person develop his or her full potential through language and literacy.

Established in 1938, the Atlanta Speech School (the "School") is composed of four schools, a clinic offering a suite of four distinct therapeutic and academic services, and a professional institute with global reach. These programs share a common mission: to help each person develop his or her full potential through language and literacy. Each day, extraordinarily dedicated and talented individuals make profound differences in the lives of the children and adults they serve helping them discover their voice, and the power of that voice, for a lifetime. To this end, the divisions of the School work independently and collaboratively to ensure the best outcome for each person served. As a core part of its mission, the School has never denied access to a child in need of its services as a result of a family's socioeconomic circumstances. The School effects transformative change in the lives of children and adults through research-based practices, innovation, advocacy, and partnerships with other organizations so that each child at the Atlanta Speech School and every child served - in Georgia and beyond - can acquire the language and literacy abilities essential for deciding his or her own future. As the nation's most comprehensive center for language and literacy, the four schools on campus serve approximately 351 preschoolers and elementary-age children annually. These schools are the Katherine Hamm Center (a listening, spoken language, and literacy program for children ages birth to six who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families); the Wardlaw School (elementary school for children with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities); Stepping Stones (preschool for young children with significant speech and/or language delays); and, the Anne & Jim Kenan Preschool (a language and literacy focused early childhood education).

The professional institute, the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy ("Rollins"), is what allows the School's mission to reach beyond the campus walls. Rollins carries the School's 80+ years of expertise constructing the reading brain in children ages birth to eight to teachers and other child-facing professionals across Georgia and beyond. Rollins synthesizes the research of the nation's leading brain development and literacy experts and collaborates with all School programs to develop and deliver onsite teacher training and coaching, as well as free online training through our Cox Campus learning platform and virtual community of practice. Rollins partners with public and private organizations to reach more than 117,000 members on the Cox Campus to deliver effective language and literacy strategies and improve effectiveness of service delivery across a sectors to equitably transform young lives. The Center initially focused on training teachers of children whose families have experienced a generational lack of access to quality education and has recently expanded to include those families themselves and other adults in a child's learning ecosystem: within the health system, social services and their communities. During the Spring and Summer of 2020, the learning platform expanded in response to COVID-19, with a goal of helping prevent COVID slide - especially given the inequities underscored by the realities of the Pandemic.

Through The Clinic, the School provides diagnostic, therapeutic and remediation services to both children and adults along the Reading Brain Continuum. These services include Speech-Language (evaluation and therapy for children and adults); Occupational Therapy (pediatric therapy to address sensory integration, handwriting or fine/gross motor difficulties) and the Learning Lab (specialized individual or small group academic intervention for children struggling academically). In all cases, services are available through telepractice. Services also include pediatric Audiology, outsourced through PENTA: Pediatric Ear, Nose and Throat of Atlanta; as well as adult Audiology, delivered through The Clinic's in-house audiologist.

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