Ellen Edwards grew up in Silver Spring, MD. She double- majored in speech/language pathology and psychology at James Madison University and then attended the University of Arizona for her graduate degree in speech/language pathology. After two years in the desert, she returned to Northern Virginia to complete her Clinical Fellowship Year and earn her Certificate of Clinical Competence. She has held a Virginia license since 1997. Ellen came to work for Reston Speech and Language Center in 1999 and loved it so much that she purchased the practice in 2006.

Ellen has experience working with children of all ages. She has provided services for children with articulation, receptive language, expressive language, and learning delays. She has had experience working with students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, pervasive developmental delays, auditory processing disorders, reading disability, and emotional disturbances. She is certified as an instructor for the Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing (LiPs) program and conducts summer classes for students with reading decoding difficulties. This is an intensive six week program that is designed to help children with auditory processing deficits using multi-sensory techniques to improve their knowledge of sound sequencing and sound/symbol relationships.

Ellen is particularly proud of the quality of service that Reston Speech and Language Center provides and she hopes to impart her love of reading to all the children she sees.

Lindsay Loughlin was raised in Bridgewater , New Jersey . She attended James Madison University where she received a Bachelors of Science degree in both Psychology and Communication Sciences and Disorders. She received her graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Maryland and is licensed to practice in the state of Virginia

Lindsay has experience working in an acute care hospital setting, specialized pre-school classes and pediatric speech therapy out-patient programs. She enjoys treating a wide variety of children, especially those with, expressive and receptive language delays, fluency disorders, articulation disorders and oral-motor disorders.

Lindsay enjoys being part of a private practice because she is able to create relationships with both the children and their families and provide care specific to each child's needs.

Michele Dinsmore is originally from New Jersey. She majored in communication disorders and minored in psychology at Boston University. Michele earned her Masters of Science in speech language pathology from Pennsylvania State University where she participated in a Department of Education traineeship to develop competencies to serve children who use augmentative and alternative communication in rural communities.

A Marine wife, Michele has worked in the public schools in Pensacola, FL and Jacksonville, NC. She has provided services for children in preschool through high school. She has had experience working with children with pervasive developmental delays/autism spectrum disorders, physical disabilities, severe speech and language impairments, and articulation/phonological process disorders. Michele is licensed by the state of Virginia and has earned her Certificate of Clinical Competence.

Michele enjoys the flexibility of working in a private practice and the opportunity it affords a therapist to focus on each child individually.

Heather Deckelbaum Heather Deckelbaum is originally from Oakland, Maryland. She majored in Communication Sciences and Disorders at James Madison University where she received a Masters of Science in 2006. She is a current member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is licensed to practice in the state of Virginia

Heather has experience working with children in school and private practice settings as
well adults in an acute care hospital and private practice. Heather has provided therapeutic services in the areas of articulation, phonology, receptive/expressive language, reading, phonemic awareness, fluency, oral-motor, and pragmatics/social skills. She especially enjoys working with literacy development and pragmatics.

Heather enjoys being a part of Reston Speech and Language Center because it provides her with the special opportunity to establish relationships with both her clients and their
families.

Tara Moore grew up in Coral Springs, Florida. She currently holds a M.S., CF-SLP Comparative Literature degree from Indiana University and Masters of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from East Carolina University

Tara is thrilled to join Reston Speech and Language Center during her Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY). She has experience working with school aged children in the school setting, and preschool through adults in an acute care hospital setting with both inpatient and outpatient treatment. Tara has provided services for children in the areas of articulation, language, fluency, oral-motor disorders and pragmatics/social skills.

Tara is happy to be back with private practice, knowing after her first internship with Reston Speech and Language in 2005 that she wanted to be part of a practice that is committed to providing effective treatment to enhance each child’s communication skills.