Carol’s passion for teaching children how to read fluently comes from experience with her own three children. All three of her children had a different educational path. The first diagnosed with Non-Verbal Language Syndrome; second, had a hard time with word retrieval; and the third child is dyslexic. In the process of learning how to equip her children for academic success, she learned a plethora of methods to teach reading and writing. Her children were the catalyst to go back to school and get the necessary training to tutor children.

TRAINING

  • Degree in Early Childhood Education
  • Ohio Department of Education: ABLE Resource Center Network REA 102: “Reading Strategies for Word Skills and Vocabulary”
  • Pro-Literacy Council Clermont/Brown Counties  “Tutor Training for Adult Illiterates”
  • The Maryland Branch of International Dyslexia Association “What is Orton Gillingham?”  Introduction to Phonological Awareness “The Way We Were”.
  • Maryland Associates for Dyslexic Adults and Youth, Incorporated Orton Gillingham approach to reading, writing, and spelling by Alice Koontz, Fellow of the Orton-Gillingham Academy who was a pioneer in working with students with learning disabilities long before people engaged in this work
  • Wilson Language Training at The Jemicy School for Dyslexia and Language-Based Disabilities; Owings Mills, Maryland.
  • Trained in Orton-Gillingham by Fran Bowman, Education Consultant and Fellow of Orton-Gillingham Academy Practitioners and Education and author of  “Bowman’s Orton-Gillingham Guidebook”
  • Brain Integration Therapy  3 hours CEU

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Orton Gillingham approach to reading and spelling
  • Wilson Language
  • A substitute teacher at The Jemicy School for Children with dyslexia and a language-based difference in Owings Mills, Maryland.

VOLUNTEER WORK

  • Literacy Council Clermont/Brown County Ohio – Compiled, created, and implemented lesson plans that taught adults how to read.
  • Paraprofessional to Director of Xavier Center for students with learning disabilities
  • Taught staff on non-verbal language disability at Kingsway Academy, Maryland
  • Taught children how to read in a one-on-one program and member of Centennial Lane Elementary School in Ellicott City, Maryland.