I’m an educational specialist and dyslexia practitioner with over 20 years of experience in education as a psychologist, teacher, and tutor. I have experience teaching emergent readers, older readers, and students with learning disabilities. My goal is to foster positive thinking in my students, who often find they are capable of more than they thought possible. I have a Psy.S in School Psychology, an MA in Liberal Studies, and BAs in English and Psychology. As a school psychologist, I evaluated students to determine the underlying causes of their learning difficulties and helped develop intervention plans that addressed their weaknesses. I also counseled children who struggled with depression, anxiety, and executive function skills. In 1999, I was the Kentucky School Psychologist of the Year. As a dyslexia practitioner, I’ve had a lot of success using the structured multi-sensory Wilson Reading System, an Orton-Gillingham based program. My sessions focus on improving phonemic awareness, decoding, high frequency word reading, fluency, and comprehension by using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile techniques. I love guiding students along their reading journey and seeing them gain confidence as their skills improve. I currently work with grades 1-6.