Shelly Burgess Nicotra earned a dual B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. from Syracuse University. She taught Art History for several years at the Syracuse University in Florence, Italy program before embarking on a career in marketing and television production in New York City. She served as the Executive Producer of the Emmy-award winning Lidia’s […]
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Theresa White, MAT, A/OGA
Theresa White graduated from Providence College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work. She worked as a Policy Associate at Rhode Island Kids Count for five years, where she created policy recommendations for state-wide and community-level programs to support children and families. After that, she pursued a Master’s Degree in teaching from Brown University. Before […]
Lydia D’Antonio, M.S., CCC-SLP
Lydia D’Antonio earned her master’s degree from Northeastern University in 2021 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont in 2019. For the last few years, she has lived in Boston and Colorado working with students in various settings ranging from public schools to therapeutic day treatment centers. She has experience working with students […]
Susan Nyman, M.Ed., Fellow/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, […]
Mary B. Cotton, MA CCC-SLP BCS-CL
Mary B. Cotton is a skilled and compassionate Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) with specialized expertise in neurodiversity-affirming practices, social cognition, and self-regulation. She earned her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology in 2008 from Case Western Reserve University after completing her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the College of Wooster as a Longbrake […]
