Bill Text: VA HJR498 | 2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commending Growing Kids Therapy Center.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-09 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ498ER) [HJR498 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HJR498-Enrolled.html
WHEREAS, Growing Kids Therapy Center in Herndon uses innovative methods to help non-speaking, minimally speaking, and unreliably speaking individuals improve their motor skills and ability to communicate; and
WHEREAS, Growing Kids Therapy Center was founded by Elizabeth Vosseller, who previously worked at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in autism; she also taught more than 20 undergraduate and graduate-level hearing and speech sciences courses at The George Washington University; and
WHEREAS, Elizabeth Vosseller developed a passion for clinical training through field supervision of teachers and speech-language pathologists during their graduate studies; she established Growing Kids Therapy Center to serve clients and their families full time; and
WHEREAS, in 2013, Elizabeth Vosseller began using augmentative and alternative communication techniques—methods to supplement or replace speech for those with impairments; and
WHEREAS, with Elizabeth Vosseller's Spelling to Communicate method, clients of Growing Kids Therapy Center utilize their cognitive and language skills to overcome speech difficulties by pointing to letters on a board to communicate; and
WHEREAS, Growing Kids Therapy Center hosts interns from various service fields and established the Accessing Community Through Spelling professional development program to develop a network of trained practitioners prepared to serve all types of clients; and
WHEREAS, in 2017, the Herndon Town Council recognized April as National Autism Acceptance Month with a proclamation that had been written by the students of Growing Kids Therapy Center; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend the Growing Kids Therapy Center for its work to help individuals develop motor skills and their ability to communicate; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Elizabeth Vosseller, founder of the Growing Kids Therapy Center, as an expression of the General Assembly's admiration for its service to the Herndon community.
