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About Us
Our Mission
The Learning Clinic provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to individuals who have learning difficulties. There can be many causes of learning difficulties. We have broad experience in helping with most of these conditions.
Our goal is to improve the life of each individual and family seeking our service. We do this by treating each individual and family with respect, and by providing clear and honest understanding of their learning difficulties. We will work with other professionals to secure the best available treatments for individuals and families who come to us.
The treatments we use are scientifically proven to be effective. We do not recommend any treatment unless we have reasonable faith, supported by facts, that it will help.
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History
We started The Learning Clinic in order to provide Fast ForWord to children. Also, we planned to provide independent educational evaluations, mainly to parents of school-aged children. As soon as Mark Taylor became a certified Fast ForWord provider in March 1997, we began receiving telephone calls from as far away as Minnesota, from parents asking us if we would work with their children. Mark was the first certified provider in an area that included Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and Idaho.
At the time, we wanted to be very careful in our selection of clients. We did not want to begin with a client we could not supervise directly, so we waited until someone from the Billings area came forward. Even when potential Billings clients inquired, we were very careful in our selection, very strictly holding to the official recommendations from Scientific Learning. As a result, we turned away a number of potential clients, finally seeing our first client in June 1997.
As providers around the country gathered more and more experience with Fast ForWord, we came to realize that Fast ForWord could help a wider range of people than we at first thought. Today we would be much more likely to accept some of the clients we turned away in 1997. For instance, we now provide Fast ForWord or related programs to adolescents and adults as well as children. We are still careful in our selection, and we will not agree to work with someone if we believe that our methods are unlikely to help them. We now have much more experience in selecting clients.
Since our beginning, we have provided evaluation services to adults as well as children. Evaluations have focused on learning problems, with special reference to what their problems mean on a personal level, including the implications for higher education or employment.
The Learning Clinic, Inc. incorporated under subchapter C in the State of Montana on May 7, 1997. Our principal activity is to provide general educational services to the public.
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Staff
Our staff consists of Rosanna Buehl, Ed.S., and Mark Taylor, NCSP, LCPC.
Both are fully accredited school psychologists. We consult with speech and language professionals, neuropsychologists, and others as appropriate.
In addition, we have a couple of non-certified therapy dogs who are available to play with participants during their breaks. Argos is a German Shepherd dog and Russel is an Australian Shepherd dog. Both have excellent temperaments, love to play, and stay out of the way when they are not needed. Naturally, if any of our visitors have allergies or fears about dogs, Argos and Russel will stay in their own room.
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Feel free to call us daytimes or evenings at a time that is convenient to you. If we are not available, please leave a message on the answering machine. One of us will get back to you as promptly as possible.
The Learning Clinic
3544 Toboggan Road
PO Box 81135
Billings MT 59108406.259.3110
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