For twenty years, I have been dedicated to teaching people to learn through intensive reading intervention. I started clinical work at Lindamood Bell Learning Processes, where I was promoted within a week to be on the national training team. I taught, mentored, tested, and trained for Lindamood Bell's clinics all over the United States, and subsequently at centers such as The Reading Clinic and The Behavioral Counseling and Research Center. Through a grant from The Performing Arts Workshop, I was able to work with groups of mainly English-language learners in a few San Francisco schools and was able to see this incredible work positively affect larger amounts of learners.
In 2006, I co-founded The Literacy and Language Center, an award-winning clinic and WASC-accredited school in San Francisco. I later took full ownership and control of “the LLC,” as it was affectionately known. For nearly 13 years, we served hundreds of struggling students in the Bay Area, one by one. We generally saw students three to five days a week, designing customized learning for each child through multi-sensory based exercises that strengthened their brains toward integrative tasks. We worked with students who were a year or more behind in school and offered a sliding scale approach to pricing so all communities had access to remediation. Over 50 teachers were trained in this work over the organization's lifetime, and most of those talented teachers continue to work in schools and other private clinical work, extending the impact in the community.
For the last five years, I have changed my focus towards thinking nationally, working with The Core Collaborative as a Partner Consultant. This has been an incredibly enriching experience. I work with educators across the United States, showing them how to integrate multi-sensory-based instruction into their classrooms to enrich even more children across this country.
Specialties: Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Processing Disorders, ADHD, Dyslexia, Hyperlexia, Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder, behavior management, movement strategies for learning, and English Language Learners.