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CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF
MAKING DISABILITIES BECOME POSSIBILITIES! |
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Our Mission
“The Mission of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is to provide outpatient therapeutic, vocational, social skill training and recreational services for persons with disabilities or injuries and support services for their families."
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Hours of Operation
Therapy: 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday - Friday Pool: 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday - Friday Administrative and Support Services: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday Location
Outpatient Therapy Clinic 5313 Decker Drive Baytown, Texas 77520 Opportunity Center Program 5307 Decker Drive Baytown, Texas 77520 
Krystal is certified through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as a Speech Language Pathologist. Krystal attended Our Lady of the Lake University, where she received a Master of Arts in Communication Disorders and obtained a bilingual certificate for having completed practicum hours with bilingual and Spanish speaking populations. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies.
Krystal has years of experience working with adult and pediatric populations in academic, medical, and private clinical settings where she has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of a variety of disorders in both English and Spanish, such as Speech and language delays; Vocal pathologies; Dysphagia (swallowing); Dysarthea and Cognitive-linguistic impairment resulting from neurological trauma. Krystal has also worked in the planning and implementation of care for individuals as well as groups. Learn more about Krystal, as well as our other outstanding program directors and key staff on our About Us page. Dock Line Magazine Articles
Body, Mind & Spirit July, 2017 Mark Alexander, Executive Director Helping Disabilities Become Possibilities Body, Mind & Spirit August, 2017 Raven West Aquatic Therapy Body, Mind & Spirit September, 2017 Kim Frederick-Brown, Opportunity Center Director Opportunity Center Monthly Update Body, Mind & Spirit October, 2017 Chasey Reed-Boston, Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Program Director An Introduction to Bay Area Rehabilitation Center's ECI Program Body, Mind & Spirit November, 2017 Bill Juch, OTR Occupational Therapy |
Hello and welcome to Bay Area Rehabilitation Center. I am the Executive Director and would like to share with you a little information about this organization that I hope will inform and educate you about what we do and who we serve. Within this website you can find more detail about each program I mention.
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was originally formed in 1948 by a small group of parents with a common interest and concern—the lack of affordable and local care for their children, all of whom had cerebral palsy. Since that early beginning almost seventy years ago, we have evolved from the Baytown Spastic Association to the Baytown Society for Crippled Children and then in 1979 we formally became Bay Area Rehabilitation Center (Bay Area). As has our name, Bay Area the organization has also evolved over the years. Starting as just a center to assist with cerebral palsy, we expanded to provide medically based rehabilitation services (physical, occupational and speech) to any child who needed that type of service, regardless of the family’s insurance status or overall ability to pay. In the mid-90’s we further expanded by introducing Adult therapy services using the same guidelines as our pediatric program. Soon after and still within the Adult program, we began to serve some of our local business and industries, through providing physical pre-work screening for select jobs, return to work testing and conditioning for those injured on the job, as well as therapy for those with job related injuries. Finally, our most recent expansion occurred in 2007 when the former Baytown Opportunity Center, an independent and local non-profit agency, was brought into the folds of Bay Area as major program. Within the Opportunity Center Program we assist adults, who typically have mild to severe mental disabilities, learn how to better adapt and live in the world around them. The mission of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is: “…to provide outpatient therapeutic, vocational, social skill training and recreational services for persons with disabilities or injuries and support services for their families. The Center also seeks to advocate for and work to provide accessible and affordable housing for this population.” Within those guidelines, we have a number of licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists as well as trained staff who work together to provide the best services possible to those clients in need. In order to meet the needs of all clients, even those with limited finances, we reinvest operational revenues back into the organization to support our financial aid program. We utilize contributions from the local and surrounding communities and have had the good fortune to receive funding from the United Way of Greater Baytown Area and Chambers County as well as United Way of Greater Houston, all with the objective of ensuring that no person who has a true need for our services will be forced to go without needed services. We provide services in five different areas: Pediatric Outpatient therapy, Adult Outpatient therapy, the Opportunity Center program as well as Aquatic Exercise, which is performed in our 25 meter heated therapy pool. Lastly, but certainly not least, we provide service to children who are newborn and up to age three in our Early Childhood Intervention, ECI, program. In our ECI program alone we provide services primarily in the home of the child, whereas all other services are provide at our 5313 Decker Dr, Baytown, TX address. Most of you will never have a need to take advantages of what we do, and for that reason you should consider yourself fortunate. For those of you who may have a need, great or small, my hope is you remember Bay Area Rehabilitation Center. For anyone interested, we welcome all visitors Monday thru Friday between 8 am and 6 pm. Thank you for visiting Bay Area Rehabilitation Center! Mark A Alexander Executive Director |
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Bay Area Rehabilitation Center has been providing quality outpatient occupational, physical, and speech therapy services for children and adults since 1948. Bay Area also provides adults with disabilities site based services, day habilitation, vocational training and job placement. Your financial support of our programs provide major benefit to those individuals with disabilities who depend on our services to aid them in living a more productive lifestyle. Bay Area is an accredited charity by the Better Business Bureau. Please consider making a donation to Bay Area to assist us in our important service of making disabilities become possibilities! You can donate with your credit card on a secure site by clicking on the donate button below. You can also make a contribution by check by clicking on the Donate link at the top of this page.
For refunds or questions about your contribution to Bay Area Rehabilitation Center please contact Jerry Cates, Director of Marketing and Development.
For refunds or questions about your contribution to Bay Area Rehabilitation Center please contact Jerry Cates, Director of Marketing and Development.
