Education

  • San Francisco State University
  • M.Ed., Special Education, emphasis on Learning Handicapped
  • Educational Therapy Certificate
  • Resource Specialist Certificate
  • California Multi-Subject Teaching Credential
  • California Teaching Credential in Special Education (emphasis Learning Handicapped)
  • University of California at Santa Cruz B.A., Psychology

Professional Associations

  • Association of Educational Therapists
  • Learning Disabilities Association
  • International Dyslexia Association

Academic Awards

  • SFSU Distinguished Graduate Student Award
  • SFSU highest honors
  • SFSU Outstanding College Service Award
  • UCSC – College Service Award

Printable Resume

Qualifications

 Experience 

  • Board Certified Educational Therapist.
  • Learning Specialist at the Carey School in San Mateo.
  • Parent educator through workshops offered at the Children's Health Council (CHC), Morrissey-Compton Testing Center, and individual schools on request
  • Facilitator of the Dr. Mel Levine Schools Attuned course.
  • Named professional development leader for Schools Attuned, through CHC
  • Taught Introduction to Educational Therapy class through UC Berkeley Extension
  • Curerntly teaching course titled, "ADHD in the Classroom" for UC Santa Cruz Extension
  • Previously employed as the Learning Specialist for the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco
  • founded collegial group of learning specialists on the Peninsula

Specialized Professional Trainings

  • Lindamood-Bell: LIPS, Visualizing & Verbalizing 
  • Project Read: Phonics/reading, Framing Your Thoughts, Comprehension (Orton-Gilligham based)
  • The Wilson System (Orton-Gillingham based)
  • Semple Math
  • Visual math
  • Strategic Instruction Strategies (SIMS): Sentence writing, Paragraph writing, Comprehension through Visualization, Word Attack, Editing
  • Schools Attuned – Mel Levine

Presentations and Workshops

  • Homework 911: homework management strategies for children and families
  • Homework 911 part II: directed towards parents of middle school children and includes information on long term planning and test taking strategies
  • Homework 911: Parents and Children Together
  • Attention: What exactly is attention and how can parents help their children manage attention challenges
  • Attention: parents and children together
  • Minds of All Kinds: Develop a greater understanding of a child's individual learning strengths and weaknesses, and gain new strategies to bolster weaknesses through a strength based point of view
  • Sensory Integration Strategies for Home and School
  • Association of Educational Therapists: “Have You Ever Tried” at national conference, Panel on Semple Math program, Panel on current issues in private practice
  • Katherine Delmar Burke School in-service: presented to faculty on ADHD and girls