About Us.

Barbara L. Ekelman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
​Specializing in Learning Disabilities

Dr. Barbara Ekelman is a certified, licensed speech-language pathologist in private practice, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, and clinical associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She established the school-aged language and literacy course at CWRU in 2003 and continues to co-teach this graduate level class in the Department of Psychological Sciences.
 
Dr. Ekelman has 30+ years of academic, clinical, and research experience in childhood, adolescent, and adult language and learning disorders. She has designed research, presented papers, and published articles in the areas of cognitive, language, and learning disabilities, childhood stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism (hyperlexia), dyslexia, and developmental apraxia. Dr. Ekelman began her career in the Department of Pediatric Neurology at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital as a clinician and researcher on NIH funded grants.  Much of her time now is spent in her private practice (Barbara L. Ekelman, Ph.D., Inc.) evaluating school aged children and young adults who are experiencing learning difficulties. Please review Dr. Ekelman's resume below 
 
Since 1993, Dr. Ekelman has contracted with area schools to complete speech, language, and learning screenings with kindergarten through fourth grade students. Most recently, Dr. Ekelman developed the Well online screener (ages 4 to 7 years/Pre-K to 1st grade) that can be administered at home, school, in a clinic, or the pediatricians office. The Well is a unique, comprehensive, 20-minute, animated screener that identifies young children who may be “at risk” for developmental language disorders, dyslexia, ADHD, autism, dyscalculia, and/or speech sound disorders.

Dr. Ekelman’s professional memberships include the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). She serves on the Advisory Board for the Early Intervention Related Services Training Program at CWRU, which is funded by the Department of Education. She served on the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center (CHSC) and the International Dyslexia Association of Northern Ohio. She also served as the ASHA Continuing Education (CE) Administrator for the greater Cleveland area. 

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Eric Wonderly, Ph.D., NCSP
Psychologist

Dr. Eric Wonderly is a licensed psychologist, licensed school psychologist, and a nationally certified school psychologist. He holds a permanent license and certification in school psychology from the State of Ohio, Department of Education. He completed his graduate work at Kent State University where he obtained his B.S. in psychology and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in School Psychology.

Dr. Wonderly has practiced in the field of school psychology and psychology for over 40 years providing services to individuals in the public, parochial, and independent school settings as well as in his private practice. Dr. Wonderly has worked in Dr. Ekelman's private practice for 25+ years conducting the psychological portion of the comprehension psychological, language, and learning evaluation. He has experience working at the Learning Assessment Clinic in the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  He also served as the psychologist/learning specialist in the upper school at Hathaway Brown School for several years.

​Dr. Wonderly has been a longtime board member of the International Dyslexia Association of Northern Ohio where he was a past vice-president. His professional memberships have included the International Dyslexia Association, National Association of School Psychologist, the Ohio School Psychologist Association, and the Cleveland Association of School Psychologists.

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