Who Are We?
Jean C Tucker, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Jean has specialized in teaching basic spoken and written language skills as well as the cognitive skills which are necessary for becoming proficient in academic endeavors. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and then worked with economically disadvantaged students, delinquent children, and emotionally handicapped children before raising a family in New Hampshire. She obtained a master's degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She completed her training in speech and language pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and received her Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech-language pathology. She also received her certification in Orton-Gillingham at the Carroll School in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She trained in and instructs others in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) program and Precision Teaching. She is trained in the Prompts for Restructuring Oral Motor Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) program, Instrumental Enrichment cognitive skills curricula, Learning Propensity Assessment Device cognitive skills evaluation system. Recently she has trained to become a coach for Cogmed Working Memory Training™.
Julia W. Higgins, B.A., Learning Disabilities Tutor
Liz Heron, Ed.D
Julia Higgins and Liz Heron, Ed.D. will continue to work at 92 Portsmouth Avenue. Their name is Resources in Education. Their goals remain the same.
Jean will continue to work with Julie and Liz in providing speech and language consultation and assessment. She is aware of many other professionals in the field, locally, regionally, and to some extent, nationally, to whom she can refer students for assessment and instruction. In some instances, she participates in designing instructional program. |
