Valley Speech Language & Learning Center serves communities, teachers, and students as a resource for successful academic language and literacy skills. Valley Speech Language and Learning Center was established in 1993 by Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan.

Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan is a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and a Certified Academic Language Therapist. She holds a doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She is the Director of Valley Speech Language and Learning Center in Brownsville, Texas and works with Texas Institute for Measurement Evaluation & Statistics at the University of Houston. She was also recently appointed chairman for the State Dyslexia Advisory committee & appointed as a member of the State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and Care.