Founder/Director of Occupational Therapy

Pallavi Chandra

Pallavi Chandra is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Kenyon College. After she graduated, she worked for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati assisting with medical research in the area of clinical drug trials for a variety of clinical diagnoses. She went on to pursue her Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy from Rush University in Chicago, IL. She has been a practicing pediatric occupational therapist with a primary focus on autism and related disorders for over 20 years. Pallavi started her career working at a therapeutic day school for children with autism between the ages of 2-22 in Chicago. Early on in her career, she was exposed to the importance of collaboration between BCBAs, OT's, SLPs, educational professionals, other medical professionals, clients, and families. She then transitioned to the public school system working in both early childhood and primary grade level communication development classrooms, which served the needs of children who had a primary diagnosis of autism. She moved to Austin, Texas 7 years ago working on multidisciplinary pediatric outpatient teams providing ABA, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy services. Within this time frame, she successfully developed and implemented occupational therapy programs for outpatient pediatric clinics and was committed to providing occupational therapy, speech therapy, and ABA therapy services with an integrative collaborative model.  Additionally, Pallavi is a dually certified professional holding an OTR/L in the state of Texas and a BCBA/LBA. Pallavi is passionate about bringing together professionals with varying expertise and combining forces for the best therapeutic outcomes and breaking down those barriers. She is also committed to promoting evidence-based practices and the dissemination of those practices.

Founder/Director of Speech and Language Therapy

Lauren M. Elgin

Lauren Elgin, originally from Simmesport, Louisiana has been a speech-language pathologist for almost 20 years, specializing in pediatrics. Upon graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University with a Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Lauren moved to Houston and worked at an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic with OT, PT, ST, and Social Work. In this setting Lauren was able to gain experience treating a wide variety of ages, diagnoses, and areas of focus including Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Fragile X, failure to thrive, speech and language delays, fluency, literacy skills delays, Angelman’s Syndrome, feeding disorders, and autism. Particularly drawn to the autistic population, Lauren worked closely with the OT, PT, and Social Work team. Being new in the field, she began to research ABA and quickly identified the need to integrate that into her therapy practice as much as possible and discovered all of the similarities and overlaps that the two disciplines share. As Lauren's journey continued, she continued to feel a drive to work alongside BCBAs and ABA teams and collaborate under the same roof. Fast forward to 2013, Lauren moved to Austin and was able to connect with a new ABA company that was looking to add ST to its service delivery model. Lauren was able to build a caseload, work with the BCBAs on scheduling, provide staff training and support related to augmentative and alternative communication, conduct in-service training for staff and families, and began her mission to cultivate a culture of collaboration across disciplines. Across the next 5 years, Lauren was able to work with some amazing clinicians and truly see collaboration in action. Lauren is a passionate believer in the power of collaboration, learning from what each unique professional brings to the team, and to integrated care for each family she serves. We can do anything, together!