**Designing or modifying lessons that meet state curriculum standards, as well as the needs of students with disabilities such as Dyslexia, Central Auditory Processing Deficit, ADHD, oral and written comprehension difficulties, word finding and working memory deficits, selective mutism, and Tourette Syndrome **Revising articles, lessons, and textbook text, by simplifying the language, adding diagrams or illustrations, changing the formatting, in short whatever is necessary to make it work for the reader; **Writing analyses of issues to be considered in enacting new policy, such as moving the district into a fuller inclusion model, including overview of gains, challenges, and steps to be taken **Editing, writing, and rewriting manuals for teacher assessment tests, writing assessment questions and sample responses **Evaluating existing and developing forms of assistive technology (e.g. speech to text, text to speech, word prediction software, computer interactive models for quizzes and projects) and using it to individualize student lessons and assessments **Writing to explain educational and teaching issues to lay audiences, such as parents **Additional teaching skills for reading, writing and literacy available upon request. EDUCATION:B. A., M.A., PHD. Experimental Cognitive Psychology M.A. Teaching Students with Special Needs MASSACHUSETTS TESTS FOR EDUCATOR LICENSURE Teacher of Students with Moderate Disabilities (Score: 90),Foundations of Reading (Score: 96), Elementary Education (Score: 89), Communication and Literacy Skills (Reading Score: 89; Writing Score: 97) Massachusetts Dept of Education teaching Certificate # 394300 Elementary Education (Gr 1-6) Preliminary 11/08/04 Students with Moderate Disabilities (PreK-8) Preliminary 11/04/08 Students with Moderate Disabilities (PreK-8) Initial 2/16/11; Professional: 5/15/15 RECENT RELEVANT WORK: August. 2002-June 30, 2018 (retirement): Teaching a substantially separate class for students with average cognitive ability & learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, Central Auditory Processing deficits, ADHD, oral & written comprehension difficulties, word finding & working memory deficits, selective mutism, Autism and Tourette Syndrome. 2008-2010 XAMONLINE WRITER/EDITOR (summer work) Duties: Editing, writing, and rewriting manuals for teacher assessment tests, writing assessment questions and sample responses, and evaluating responses; working online with multiple copies of a document, including multiple edits and changes, evaluating previous edits and versions and finalizing the documents.