Central Coast Language and Learning Center, Inc. (CCLLC)

We provide comprehensive case management for families of children struggling with language and learning difficulties. With strong community relationships, our team approach ensures consistent communication between professionals and parents, provides essential resources necessary for language and learning development, and supports academic success.

CCLLC accepts most insurance plans, and our staff will be happy to assist you in understanding and accessing your benefits for covered services.

Diagnostic Services

Educational Evaluations: A full educational evaluation helps the client learn how he or she learns best. If learning is difficult, frustrating, or very time consuming, CCLLC can evaluate a student’s developmental learning profile and make recommendations for appropriate instruction. Our evaluations are based on a battery of tests that assess intelligence, cognitive processing, academic skills, language development and behavioral issues related to learning. Evaluation is essential in planning an instructional program for those who learn differently. The evaluation includes a comprehensive written report to the parents detailing test results and recommendations for instruction. This report is completed within four weeks of the date of the evaluation. The evaluator is available to consult with medical, mental health and school personnel.

Individuals come to Central Coast Language and Learning Center with learning differences that range from mild learning problems to those who have complex learning disabilities. Our scope of practice includes:

• Language delays and articulation difficulties
• Learning style differences
• Specific Learning Disabilities (including dyslexia, language disorders, and nonverbal learning disabilities)
• Attention difficulties (including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
• Gifted learners
• Autism

Follow-up Services

Educational Therapy: Educational Therapy is individualized instruction that utilizes information from the client’s social, emotional, psycho-educational, and neuropsychological history. The purpose of educational therapy is to clarify learning problems and facilitate learning about learning. Educational therapists (CET) are certified through the Association of Educational Therapists (AET) and are trained to assess and remediate areas of difficulty, and to teach compensatory strategies to students with learning disabilities, and other learning differences. Educational Therapists at Central Coast Language and Learning Center will provide mentoring, communication with teachers, and individual instruction.

Speech-Language Therapy: Speech-Language Therapists (CCC-SLP) are specialists trained to facilitate speech and language development and treat language and speech disorders. Language is essential to communication and learning. Speech therapy targets receptive and expressive language including vocabulary, listening comprehension, following directions, oral and written expression. Speech Therapists at Central Coast Language and Learning Center provide individuals and their families with strategies and solutions for resolving communication difficulties.

Tutoring: Tutoring supports academic success in specific subject areas. Tutoring sessions are scheduled two to four times a week for between one and two hours each meeting. Goals and objectives are discussed with the student’s support system (parents, teachers, and other professionals); progress reports help to track the effectiveness of tutoring; and an end of the term’s parent conference allows feedback for the student and his/her network of support.

Auditory Integration Training (AIT): Berard AIT is a non-invasive 10 day intensive listening program that can help improve listening skills, tolerance to sounds Q1yper and hypo sensitivity), speech and language skills, and cognitive skills (like memory and attention). In many cases, distortions  in hearing or auditory processing have intensified sensory and behavioral symptoms found in behavioral and learning disorders. In clinical studies,  Berard AIT has significantly improved many of the skills impaired in those with autism spectrum disorders, central auditory processing disorders (CAPO), speech and language disorders, sensory issues including auditory, tactile or other sensory sensitivities (hyper or hypo), dyslexia,  pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), Attention deficit disorder, and anxiety.

Adult Services: Our Speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat adult patients with a range of impairments including augmentative and alternative communication systems (AAC), apraxia, hearing loss, neurological disorders, stroke, stuttering, and traumatic brain injury. Speech-language pathologists work closely with family members to help individuals facilitate functional communication in everyday settings. We work with insurance companies and local agencies to provide the community with these services.

Trainings and In-Services: Ensuring your team is providing the most current and innovative techniques with a strong foundational understanding of best practice is at the forefront of our mission. Our staff is available to provide training to staff, clinicians, and community members regarding services, best practices, research-based interventions and outcome measures. Trainings are available at the Center in Monterey or staff can provide on site support services.

Our therapists are experts in their field, using innovative methods and approaches to care. But they do so in a caring, compassionate way. We get to know you as a person, not just a patient. Our team is also trained in the latest techniques, including:

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
• Beckman Oral Motor Protocol.
• Berard Auditory Integration Training (AIT).
• Lee-Silverman Voice Treatment©.
• Nancy-Kaufman treatment for apraxia.
• Orton-Gillingham approach for reading
• SPEAK OUT!® and The LOUD Crowd®, for Parkinson’s disease.

several staff are spanish-english bilingual