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Founder & CEO
Learning By Design, Inc.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Wasowicz has more than 40 years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning specialist working with students who have language-based reading, writing, and spelling problems in a variety of educational settings including public schools, Head Start programs, and private practice. She frequently is invited to speak at national, state, and local conferences about best practices in literacy assessment and instruction and has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, holding faculty positions at Northwestern University, Elmhurst College, Rush–Presbyterian–St. Luke’s Medical Center, and Governors State University. Her credits include articles published in scholarly journals and U.S. patents for her inventions of literacy assessment and intervention software programs, including the Earobics® and SPELL-2 software programs. Dr. Wasowicz is an author of SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing and is the lead moderator of the SPELLTalk multi-disciplinary professional listserv. Dr. Wasowicz is an ASHA-certified, IL-licensed, and FL-licensed speech-language pathologist and an ASHA Board Certified Specialist in Child Language and she holds a professional educator license with multiple endorsements from the State Teacher Certification Board of Illinois. She is the founder, president and CEO of Learning By Design, Inc., publisher of the SPELL-2 assessment software and the SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing word study curriculum. She maintains a private practice in IL via tele-practice and in FL serving students with oral and written language disorders.