Charlene Martens, M.S. CCC-SLP SP # 14558 Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist. Charlene attended Minot State University (MSU) in Minot, North Dakota for the completion of both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Communication Disorders. Charlene has over five years of therapy experience, working in a variety of settings with both children and adults. Her primary university therapy experience is with toddlers with language delays and phonological processing disorders. She also has had clinical experience with adults with developmental disabilities and senior citizens.

In graduate school, she obtained clinical experience in two external clinical practicum settings. The first was in the Murrieta Valley Unified School District in Murrieta, CA, where she obtained experience in the public school district working with groups of children with a variety of needs including language processing, learning disabilities, articulation, and individual sessions with children with autism. The second external practicum experience was at St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, ND, where she worked in the Rehab unit in the hospital with adults who were recovering from strokes,

traumatic brain injury and a variety of other etiologies. She also gained therapy experience working with adults via the Telehealth network, where speech therapy was conducted via the Internet, connected to hospitals in rural areas of North Dakota. At the hospital, she also worked with children, including those with autism, developmental delays and severe multiple handicaps. She also spent two and a half years working at the Children’s Speech Care Center, which is a private speech clinic in Torrance, CA. Here she obtained more experience with children from age two to eleven, as well as more experience with adults and post-stroke rehab therapy. At the clinic, her caseload included a variety of diagnosis, including early intervention, language delays, articulation, phonological disorders, Autism, Down’s syndrome, cleft palate as well as CAPD.

Charlene has worked at Carousel School for three years and her current interest areas in speech therapy include Aural Rehabilitation, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), working with adults and children with developmental disabilities and phonological processing disorders.