"My professional career reflects over thirty years of best practice experiences in family-centered services of instructional support, remediation, and consultation to families with students with atypical learning profiles. I have a proven track record of successfully collaborating with parents, teachers, therapists, developmental specialists, and educational teams, demonstrating my strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a team.

Collaborative communication involves speech and language therapists, school counselors, physical/occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, and pediatricians.

My leadership abilities have been applied in various areas, including organization, team facilitation, training, and program development. This proven leadership in program development instills confidence in my ability to drive initiatives and bring about positive change.

Developed, implemented, and monitored grants in private and public education

and allied healthcare settings and have experience in numerous professional services in education, healthcare, community, and center-based systems and settings.

Accustomed to working with individuals at all levels of responsibilities in hospitals, community-based programs, and institutions of education with staff development and training, program planning and evaluation, grant writing and grant management, and advocacy.

Private Practice – 1985 – Present

• Direct service to individuals and small groups of students in the K-12 grades.

• Direct instructional services and remediation of students, implementing various strategies and approaches to learning for students with atypical learning needs.

• Instructional support to elementary school students and high school students across the curriculum with the exclusion of middle school and high school math.

o Social Studies and Elementary Science

o Paragraph and Essay Writing

o Grammar

o Reading Responses

o Journal Writing

o Writing Across the Curriculum

Literacy development based on the Science of Reading is provided to emergent readers and students experiencing dyslexia and atypical learning profiles.

Phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and decoding instruction are taught through a multisensory approach based on the Orton-Gillingham structure of the English language.

Evidence-Based Instruction for Reading, Written Expression, and Early Math

• Wilson Language Training/Fundations

• SLANT

• Really Great Reading

• SPIRE

• Morphology

• Vocabulary

Stern Math

Written Expression

• The Write Tools

• Step Up to Writing

• Analytical Writing

Executive Functioning Services for Elementary, Middle and High School Students

• Planning, monitoring, and assessing the efficacy of technology, tools, and strategies for organization and managing materials and time individually developed for successful lifelong learning.

Consultation with parents, homeschool teachers, and micro-school leaders and teachers

• Developing programs of support for students with atypical learning profiles

• Implementing IEP and Service Plan goals for micro-school and homeschool learning communities.

• Supporting homeschool students as they navigate online learning experiences due to medically complex conditions, challenges with attention, and COVID-19." less...