KAREN PERRY INGRAHAM, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Karen Ingraham is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist who has more than 9 years of clinical experience with specialties including pediatric feeding disorders and early language development. Karen completed her master’s graduate school training at George Washington University. The start of her career was in a hospital setting at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Virginia. She has also worked in a preschool classroom through the public school system, with private clients, and the early intervention system.
Karen has worked exclusively in pediatrics throughout her career and has extensive experience with providing services to children of all abilities. Her experience includes children with sensory and oral motor based feeding challenges, expressive-receptive language delays, articulation disorders, stuttering, genetic/chromosomal disorders, attention deficits, PTSD, learning disorders, developmental delays, and many more.
Karen is committed to enhancing and expanding her clinical skill set through continuing education courses including but not limited to the following: Sequential Oral Sensory Approach (SOS), SOFFI Method: Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants, Langmore FEES Course: A Procedure for Evaluating Oropharyngeal Dysphagia, The AEIOU Systematic Approach to Pediatric Feeding, Mealtime Miseries, Social Thinking by Michelle Garcia Winner, Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities (ICAN), national American Speech and Hearing Association conferences, and other specialty courses with a focus on pediatric feeding and language.
All treatment plans created by Karen are individualized to the patient to focus on his/her family’s unique set of needs. Karen understands that learning about feeding and language must be fun and incorporate the whole family in order to make the changes.
Being part of the multidisciplinary team of Empower Therapy offers Karen the unique opportunity to collaborate closely with occupational therapists in regard to crafting the most appropriate plan of treatment for children with complex feeding and development needs. Karen offers a flexible, professional, enthusiastic approach to feeding and language development.
Karen has worked exclusively in pediatrics throughout her career and has extensive experience with providing services to children of all abilities. Her experience includes children with sensory and oral motor based feeding challenges, expressive-receptive language delays, articulation disorders, stuttering, genetic/chromosomal disorders, attention deficits, PTSD, learning disorders, developmental delays, and many more.
Karen is committed to enhancing and expanding her clinical skill set through continuing education courses including but not limited to the following: Sequential Oral Sensory Approach (SOS), SOFFI Method: Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants, Langmore FEES Course: A Procedure for Evaluating Oropharyngeal Dysphagia, The AEIOU Systematic Approach to Pediatric Feeding, Mealtime Miseries, Social Thinking by Michelle Garcia Winner, Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities (ICAN), national American Speech and Hearing Association conferences, and other specialty courses with a focus on pediatric feeding and language.
All treatment plans created by Karen are individualized to the patient to focus on his/her family’s unique set of needs. Karen understands that learning about feeding and language must be fun and incorporate the whole family in order to make the changes.
Being part of the multidisciplinary team of Empower Therapy offers Karen the unique opportunity to collaborate closely with occupational therapists in regard to crafting the most appropriate plan of treatment for children with complex feeding and development needs. Karen offers a flexible, professional, enthusiastic approach to feeding and language development.
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