Rachel Betzen started Dallas Reading and Language Services as a private practice in Dallas, Texas offering speech-language therapy and reading programs to children in 2005.

Rachel overcame many speech and reading hurdles of her own as a child and has healed from several health setbacks and conquered her own challenges as an adult.

These experiences have made her truly passionate about the work she does and allows her to empathize with the kids with whom she and her staff currently work.

Rachel has learned how improving a child's speech fundamentals and providing the proper tools that empower children to learn how to read have a very real and powerful long-term affect in life.

“The students I had were all behind in either speech or language," says Rachel. "They had a significant reading delay, or were not reading at all."

Another major difference between DRLS and other therapy providers, is that Rachel Betzen CCC/SLP upholds resoundingly high expectations of her students and understands their needs through accurate evaluations.

"In each instance in which I received therapy reports on children who had speech therapy previously, my short-term goals for the child were always higher than the goals he or she had with the previous therapist. This was the case in every single instance."

Rachel, like the rest of her staff, believes in the abilities of the children they work with and always seeks to meet the individual needs of each child to bring even faster results.

Accordingly, her students perform well, many reaching the point where their speech-language and reading skills catch up to their grade level.

That is the end goal for each child and Rachel helps bring children to that goal, quickly.