Karindy Ong, MA, CCC-SLP, CFT*
Karindy Ong is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who graduated from the University of Houston with a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders in May 2015. She has extensive clinical experience in acute, post-acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation hospital settings. Karindy has specialized experience working with disorders of consciousness, spinal cord injury, brain injury, infant feeding issues, and orofacial myofunctional disorders. She currently provides therapy to neurologically and medically complex patients from infancy through adulthood with feeding, swallowing, and orofacial myofunctional disorders at the Speech and Language Connection in Katy, Texas.
Karindy’s certifications include Craniosacral Fascia Therapy (CFT, the Gillespie Approach), Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT), Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, VitalStim, the Safe-and-Sound Protocol (a Polyvagal informed intervention), and is currently enrolled in the AIC Masters Fellowship. She has also completed extensive training in dysphagia, feeding, and orofacial myofunctional disorders.
One of the frameworks Karindy uses to guide her work is polyvagal theory, which looks at how the nervous system and emotions are interconnected. By understanding how the body responds to stress and trauma, treatments are tailored to meet each patient's specific needs. Depending on the patient, biohacking interventions may also be utilized to increase reduce treatment time and increase the quality of improvements gained. Karindy is well-known for seeing a variety of connections in each case and collaborating across-disciplines to get to the root cause for the most impact.
When not engrossed in therapy, Karindy enjoys being outside and exploring state parks with her family, going to the gym, listening to podcasts and books, and learning more about biohacking.