Lauren Schrenk, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC

Lauren Schrenk is a Senior Speech-Language Pathologist and Certified Lactation Counselor at Texas Children’s Hospital, where she specializes in evaluating and treating infants, toddlers and children with complex feeding and swallowing disorders. Her expertise includes working with breastfed and bottle-fed infants who have a range of conditions, such as breastfeeding difficulties, genetic disorders, congenital heart defects, neurological disorders, craniofacial anomalies and airway disorders. She also provides comprehensive care to infants and toddlers following discharge from the NICU, CICU and PICU.

Lauren is an integral member of several multidisciplinary teams at Texas Children’s Hospital, including the Aerodigestive Team, Swallow Disorders Clinic, Head and Neck Tumor Program, Airway Clinic and Trach/Vent Outpatient Clinic. She conducts objective swallow studies, including video fluoroscopic swallow studies and flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Additionally, she is passionate about mentoring and serving as a preceptor for students and new speech-language pathologists.

Personal Statement

Lauren believes in a family-centered treatment approach and provides individualized care for her patients. She deeply focuses on mulidisciplinary care to ensure high quality evaluation and treatment are provided for each patient.

Clinical Interests

Aerodigestive disorders, breastfeeding, infant feeding/swallowing, tracheostomy/ventilator dependence, multidisciplinary care

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Research interests

Pediatric dysphagia, breastfeeding, upper airway disorders, multidisciplinary care