Melissa Balthazor

Biography

Melissa Balthazor is the owner and clinical director of Round Rock Children’s Therapy Center. She is also a practicing SLP who makes time to evaluate and treat clients because she loves it! She was born and raised in Baileyville, Kansas and received her M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is ASHA certified and holds a Texas license.

Melissa has many years of clinical experience providing treatment to the pediatric population in public school settings (both at the primary and secondary levels) and pediatric outpatient clinics. Areas of expertise include spectrum disorders (e.g., Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Asperger’s Syndrome), Apraxia of Speech, Rett’s Syndrome, Down Syndrome, phonological disorders, fluency disorders (i.e., stuttering), cognitive deficits, cleft lip and palate, and other general speech, language, and oral motor delays.

Additionally, she has attended numerous conferences and workshops to ensure that she and her team continually provide the most current methods of evidence-based treatment to every client. She has completed The Social Thinking Clinical Training Program Level 1-Assessment at Michelle Garcia Winner’s clinic in San Jose, CA, The Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing Program, and the SOS Approach to Feeding.

In her free time, Melissa enjoys barre, reading, traveling, gardening and spending time with her husband, Colt, and her two boys, Oliver and Charlie.