Karen L. from Upper Marlboro, MD

As a parent of a special needs student I was immersed in the world of understanding how students with learning disabilities learned and how their specific challenges impacted them in school. Coupled with being a student myself and the desire to work with special needs children, I became an instructional assistant in the public school system in the field of special education. For the past eight years I have worked with students having varying disabilities including, but not limited to, specific