Our Free Services
Encourage provides free evaluation, treatment, and advocacy to learning and communication challenged children. Intervention is based on each child and family's unique strengths, weaknesses, and needs. We serve children who have difficulty with listening, speaking, paying attention, remembering, reading, and writing between 18 months and 15 years of age. We diagnose the problem and create an individualized treatment plan.
To apply for free speech, language and learning services complete Email below and send us your information. We will send you an application so you can tell us more about your child's needs, you can cut and paste the application into an email or you can download the PDF below.
Our Free Services
helping children with speech language and learning challenges
Our Story
Tom Tatum Speech Language Pathologist
Tom was born in Tulsa Oklahoma and grew up in 5 different states until settling in Guam where he went to Junior and High School. He played football and baseball at Fresno City College. Tom has 3 married sons and 9 grandchildren. He and his wife Maureen enjoy baking, gardening and raising cattle. Tom has actively participated in scuba diving, snow skiing, wake boarding, and car racing as hobbies.
​Tom graduated from California State University Fresno with a BA in Psychology\Communication Disorders and a MA in Speech Pathology. He went into private practice in 1983 and has provided speech, language and swallowing therapy services throughout the Central Valley serving children and adults.