Dr. Vicki Parker is founder and director of The Brain Trainer. She holds a Ph.D. in speech language pathology with a concentration in neurological and traumatic disorders. For nearly 30 years, she has worked with children and adults who have learning, speech, language, behavior and reading disorders. Dr. Parker has been interviewed and featured in major media outlets, including The New York Daily News, WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte Talks, South Charlotte Weekly, News 14 Carolinas, Fox Charlotte, WBT, and MomsCharlotte.com. She’s been a reoccurring guest on You Aut To Know, a national radio program about autism, and she has written for The Charlotte Observer on brain training. She speaks nationally at professional conferences and is author of the textbook Problem Solving, Planning and Organizational Tasks: Strategies for Retraining. Along with years of clinical expertise in her field, Dr. Parker understands it from the perspective of a mother whose child needed help. Her daughter Sally struggled with learning and reading in first grade. After extensively researching options, Dr. Parker chose brain training and speech therapy for her own daughter. Specialties: Assessments and treatment for cognition, language and speech production.Experience working with children and adults and the following disability groups: learning disabilities, auditory processing, dyslexia, articulation, oral and verbal apraxia, autism, Asperger's syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, non-verbal learning disorders, traumatic brain injury, aphasia or right hemisphere dysfunction following a stroke, articulation, aural rehabilitation secondary to hearing impairment.