Kara has been a special education teacher at both the middle school and high school level for more than 10 years.
Professional Learning Team
Cassie Budzilek, M.A. CCC-SLP
Cassie has been in the field of education for over 25 years as a speech-language pathologist and educational consultant. She earned both her B.A. and M.A. in Communication Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, and Certificate of Competency in Autism Spectrum Disorders from Penn State University. Cassie holds an ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence and […]
Susan Nyman, M.Ed., F/OGA
Education has been Susan’s passion for over 30 years working in public and private schools as a special educator K-12 as well as an Orton-Gillingham practitioner in private practice. She received her Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Administration and French from The College of Charleston and soon realized her desire was to work with children, so […]
Catrina Hays
Catrina received her BS from Northwestern University’s School of Speech and then her MA from the University of Arizona. She has taught students with dyslexia aged 5 through 19 using the Wilson Reading System for 22 years. She has been a Wilson Language Trainer since 2004 and works both for the local partnership, Learning Techniques, […]
Louisa Moats, Ed.D.
Louisa C. Moats is a nationally recognized authority on how children learn to read and why some fail to learn. Moats has served as an adjunct professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas, Houston. She spent 15 years in private practice as a […]
