Learning Specialists
ADIBI, Denielle
Educational and Reading Therapist with Speciality in Dyslexia
Paris
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
MA in Education; USA; 1990
Educational Therapy Certification; Reading Therapist with Speciality in Dyslexia; Executive Function Coach--speciality ADHD
Areas of Specialty:
Reading, Writing (including Dysgraphia), Spelling, Executive Function and Time Management skills
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Structured Literacy; Executive Function - Seeing My Time
Works with ages:
Ages 5 to Adult
Currently working with:
Private clients and schools
Types of evaluations:
Screenings for dyslexia, reading and writing skills
Languages:
English, French
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
Stanford University: AB,MA, Teaching Degree K through 12, California teaching certification. Taught in US, Spain (Centro Nuevo de Pedagogia, Torrejon Air Base) Hong Kong (British certification), France (mainly lycée level in national and international schools) palmes academiques.
Teaching License renewed every year in California.
Areas of Specialty:
Special Education K-12;
Dyslexia;
Adaptation to French educational system.
Mainly adolescents, including college.
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Mainly retired.
Languages:
English, Spanish, French, some Cantonese
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
Masters in Special Education- University of East London, UK, May 2023 Bachelors in Psychology-Webster University, The Netherlands, 1993
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Ideereka-Barkley Course on ADHD; July 2023
Autism Coach, NCOB, The Netherlands, 2022
Julie Tuil-Certificate in ABA basics, 2022
RBT (Registered Behaviour Technician)-ABA therapy, Relias Learning, US, (online), 2020
TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language)-ITTT, (online), 2014
Certificate in Education and Psychology for Special Needs-University of London, UK, 2001.
Massage Therapist-UK/FR, 2001, 2017-2018
Areas of Specialty:
Autism, Inclusion
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Coaching for parents, children and teachers
Works with ages:
Elementary (6 years - 12 years)
Currently working with:
Private clients and schools
Languages: English, Dutch, French
Kareckaite-Gouriou, Ruta
Learning Specialist/ Primitive Reflex Integration Therapist
L'Etang-la-Ville
Full Member
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
BSc Applied Psychology, UK, 2005 PGCert Councelling and Psychotherapy, UK 2008 ;
Master Thesis in Developmental Psychology Institut de Psychologie, France, 2007 ;
Prof Doc in Education, Nottingham University, UK 2011- current (currently suspended for family reasons).
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Exercise and Sound in Education, school based movement and auditory integration program provider certification, Developmental Practitioners Association, UK, 2008 ;
Rhythmic Movement Training for primitive Reflexes Practitioner Levels 1 and 2 by Harald Blomberg, Suomen Kinesiologiayhdistys, Finland, 2009 ;
The Listening Program Provider Certificate, Advanced Brain Technologies, US 2011 ;
Johansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation Practitioner Certificate, Denmark, 2014 ;
In Time Auditory and Movement Re-education program, Provider Certificate, US 2016.
Areas of Specialty:
Sensory issues relating to learning and behaviour, visual and auditory processing reeducation, primitive reflex integration, AD/HD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, home education.
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Working with children, parents and schools: classroom observations/teacher training/attending school meetings that are aimed at making individualised program (including French state schools), training parents to help their child; providing additional assessments when needed.
Works with ages:
Early childhood, elementary and adolescent.
Currently working with:
Private clients and schools, home educating families
Types of evaluations:
Primitive Reflex Profile (neuromotor readiness for learning)
Auditory Processing for Learning evaluation
Visual Perception evaluation
Leaning and cognitive aptitude test (in French- EDA)
Languages:
English, French, Lithuanian, Russian
Lament, Jessica
Special Education Teacher, Teacher Coach & Inclusion Consultant
SPRINT Vice-President
75015 Paris
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
Bachelors in Inclusive Elementary and Special Education, USA, 2007 + Masters in Early Childhood Special
Education, USA, 2009
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Elementary and Special Education Teacher (Birth - Grade 6), New York State, USA, since 2012
Areas of Specialty:
Inclusion, Student Support, Teacher Training
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Supports to students, parents, and schools.
Works with ages:
Early Childhood, Elementary
Currently working with:
Both private clients and schools
Languages:
English, French
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
MA Childhood Education and Special Education, USA, 2008
BA English, USA, 2004
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Elementary Education Teaching Certificate, NY, Permanent
Special Education Teaching Certificate, NY, Permanent
Areas of Specialty:
Special Education K-12
Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia
Autism
ADHD
Behavior Specialist
Executive Function
Educational Consulting
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Educational Consulting; Student Coaching; Parent Coaching
Works with ages:
K-12 & Early Childhood to Adolescent
Currently working with:
Private clients, American School of Paris
Languages: English
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
MEd Social, Emotional, Behavioural Difficulties, UK, 2018
PG SEND, UK, 2021 (Dyslexia: Leadership and Intervention, & Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing CCET)
MSc Psychology, UK, (To be completed end of 2023)
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
CCET + AAC= CP3TA (Certificate in Psychometric Testing, Assessment and Access Arrangements) 2023, Real Training, Middlesex University: BPS RQTU
Areas of Specialty:
Dyslexia, educational testing, access arrangments, dyslexia, social, emotional & behavioural difficulties.
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Educational testing, Access arrangements, one-to-one hourly learning support.
Works with ages:
Early childhood to adolescent
Currently working with:
Private clients
Types of evaluations:
Educational evaluations and access arrangements: Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing - Second Edition (CTOPP-2), The Weschler Individual Achievement Test - Third UK Edition, (WIAT-III), Detailed Assessment of the Speed of Handwriting (DASH), Wide Range Intelligent Test (WRIT), Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration 6th Edition (Beery VMI). SCAN-3:C Tests of Auditory Processing Disorders for Children 'SCAN-3:C).
Languages : English, French
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
Bachelor's Degree in Special Education, Philippines, 2012
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Teaching License, PRC, 2014
Areas of Specialty:
Applied Behaviour Analysis, Teaching children with Autism
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Home therapy programs Learning support assistant
Works with ages:
Early Childhood and Elementary
Currently working with:
Private Clients
Languages:
English
Smires, Michelle
Bilingual Education/Learning Support Teacher
SPRINT Secretary
Orgerus
michelle.bennani-smires@orange.fr
Full Member
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
BA English, BA Spanish (Linguistics) 1989
Credentials/Certificates/Licenses:
Bilingual/Bicultural and Elementary Education, California State University, 1991
Areas of Specialty:
Bilingual Education; Learning Support
Works with ages:
Elementary, Middle School, High School
Currently working with:
Exclusively with Schools
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Todd-Morel, Jacquelyn
Learning Support Specialist
Saint Sauveur le Vicomte
Full member
Degree Programs Completed, Country, Year:
Boston University 1980
Areas of Specialty:
Emotional-based learning blocks
Nature involvement
Type of Therapies/Services Offered:
Consultation. Curriculum links
Works with ages:
4-94
Currently working with:
No one.
Languages :
English, French.