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 […]
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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 […]
Kristen Bierer, MA
Kristen grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and has always enjoyed working with children. She is a licensed educator and recently moved to Vermont from New Mexico, where she taught in both public and private schools for 26 years. Kristen earned her BA in Elementary Education from University of North Carolina, Charlotte, MA in Special […]
