I have spent 25 years, plus teaching dyslexic/learning-disabled students in public schools, private tutoring, and volunteering. I have aM asters’ss degree in Literacy (2015, SUNY Albany), and also degrees from Australia and Texas.

I’ve specialized in teaching children who struggle with literacy. Students were all non-reading after spending years in reading programs. My job: teach them to read.

I use multi-sensory teaching methods, recognizing that students who struggle have additional challenges which have not been identified. I teach decoding, reading comprehension, and the hidden components of literacy & learning. I engage students by working with a specialized program adapting my work to meet their needs, and have students succeed.

Case studies:
Student age 13: He spent four years in a (phonics only) reading program reading on 1st grade level. 3 Years later, reading on grade level, graduated high school without an IEP, & graduated College with Honors Degree in Communication.
Student: A 6th-grade non-reading (Kindergarten level) student takes three years to read on grade level.

My star student is a long-term case study. In 1994, he failed first grade. In 2008, he graduated in the top 20 % of his high school class. In 2018, he graduated with his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Oxford University. I published a book on this story.

I have published an academic paper with Prof Tim Rasinski in The Reading Teacher.