Drs. Katz and Pierson came together to form 3LI, in large part, because of our shared values and beliefs that clinical care should be nothing short of excellent.
To meet our community’s needs, in the years since founding 3LI, we actively recruited two exceptional clinicians, first Karen Wasco, M.S., CCC-SLP in 2015, and then, Vanessa Howell, M.S., CCC-SLP in 2023. Karen had worked under Joanne for many years at the University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy at the University of Michigan, and Joanne recognized Karen’s clinical giftedness and had to bring her to 3LI. Vanessa’s sharp and thoughtful mind captured Lauren’s attention when she was a graduate student of Lauren’s at Bowling Green State University, and when Vanessa happened to settle back in the Ann Arbor area, 3LI grabbed her.
We are proud of the clinical services that we have provided to our clients throughout all of our many years of work in this field, and we have maintained reputations as dedicated and knowledgeable clinicians with outstanding integrity.
One of our aims at 3LI is to attend to the whole person in our provision of clinical services. We have expertise in a number of related disciplines—speech-language pathology, literacy disorders, learning disabilities, and education, and we meet regularly with one another to ensure that our clients’ needs are carefully considered. Finally, we view ourselves as life-long learners who are routinely in search of more knowledge—we are regular consumers of research, and we recognize that when new evidence emerges, our diagnostic and therapeutic practices must adapt.
For more information about our clinical services, please click on the individual links under Clinical Services at the top of the page, and please feel free to contact us by phone or email.