BrainPro Tutors have – on average – 20 years of educational experience. Your BrainPro Tutor will monitor your child’s progress and communicate with you remotely, via email and/or phone calls – providing you with detailed information on how to help your child with exercises she finds more challenging. You can select a BrainPro Tutor based on criteria that’s important to you: educational background, professional specialty, years of experience, or even time zone.

Geri Drexler M.A., CCC/SLP (Eastern Time Zone)

Geri Drexler has been a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist for more than 40 years. She has been a Fast ForWord® Provider for 12 years and now works exclusively with off-site clients all across the country. Geri has specialized in working with children who struggle to learn all of her career and has worked extensively with children with language/learning disabilities, reading disorders, and autism. She prides herself on helping parents to achieve extraordinary results in their child's language and listening skills using the Fast ForWord Products.

• Education:
  B.A, speech therapy, Douglass College, Rutgers University
  M.A., speech pathology, Newark State College (now Keane University)
  Post graduate studies, Columbia Univ., deaf education
  
• Accreditations: CCC-SLP; ASHA certification
• Professional specialty: Speech, Language, and Auditory Processing Disorders
• State licensure: FL
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 12 Years
• Time Zone: Eastern

Ann Gordon (Eastern Time Zone)

Ann E. Gordon is a Speech-Language Pathologist in private practice for over 30 years. She has been a Fast ForWord provider since her involvement in the original research trials in 1996. She has been recognized by Scientific Learning as a skilled provider. Ann has expertise in working with young children, adolescents and adults with a range of reading, language and learning difficulties. She is passionate about helping individuals reach their learning potential.

• Education:
  B.A. Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
  M.A. Queens College of the City University of New York in Speech-Language Pathology
  
• Accreditations: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence
• Professional specialty: Auditory processing, reading, language learning disabilities, attention deficit, autism, apraxia and hearing impairment
• State licensure: Speech-Language Pathology, NY
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 13 Years
• Time Zone: Eastern

Pamela Hyink (Mountain Time Zone)

Helping kids launch successful academic careers is Pam's passion. She has been in private practice for over 25 years, taught at the University of Colorado for 10 years and was a therapist in the schools for 5 years.

• Education:
  University of Colorado, BA in Speech & Hearing Science
  University of Northern Colorado, Masters in Speech Pathology
  
• Accreditations: Certificate of Clinical Competance from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Professional specialty: Speech, Language, and Auditory Processing Disorders
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 12 Years
• Time Zone: Mountain

Joan Klein (Pacific Time Zone)

Joan Klein is an Educational Therapist in private practice. Prior to being in Private Practice, she was a Special Education Teacher for 10 years. Joan has worked with families with many kinds of learning differences. She has always believed that children have many gifts, and it is her desire to help them discover them.

• Education:
  Adelphi University, BA
  California Lutheran University, MS Special Education
• Accreditations: Special Education Teacher, Professional Educational Therapist, Certified Provider for Advanced Brain Technology, Western Psychological Association Provider for Sensory Integration Assessments
• Professional specialty: Work with ADD, reading, writing, math, nonverbal learning disorders, social skills, IEP support, and locating appropriate school setting
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 11 Years
• Time Zone: Pacific

Ann Osterling (Central Time Zone)

Ann Osterling is a pediatric speech-language pathologist with a private practice in Champaign, IL. She has been a Fast ForWord provider since her involvement with the 1996 field study. Ann has also been active with Scientific Learning as a member of the Speakers Bureau and as a per diem Fast ForWord trainer to new providers and schools. Ann has clinical expertise in working with children with disorders in auditory processing, language/learning development, autism spectrum, reading, nonverbal learning abilities, social interaction skills, and medical disorders.

• Education:
  Purdue University, BS in Audiology & Speech Sciences
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MA in Speech & Hearing Sciences
  
• Accreditations: CCC-SLP/L; ASHA Certified and Illinois Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 13 Years
• Time Zone: Central

Jolene Seabourn (Central Time Zone)

Having been in private practice for over 25 years, Jolene brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her work with children and adolescents with speech, language, and learning differences.

• Education:
  University of North Texas, Bachelor of Science
  University of North Texas, Master of Science
• Accreditations: Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Professional specialty: Pediatric Speech, Language, and Learning Disorders
• State licensure: TX
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 12 Years
• Time Zone: Central

Karen Slotnick (Eastern Time Zone)

Karen Slotnick is Director of the Speech, Language and Learning Center at Beth Israel Medical Center. She has been a provider of Fast ForWord since its inception and continues to be professionally rewarded and inspired by the dramatic changes it has made in the lives of the children and adults in her care. Though based in New York City, she has had extensive experience providing her Fast ForWord expertise to families in as far-reaching locales as Greece and Qatar

• Education:
  Hunter College, NY, MA in Communication Sciences
• Accreditations: Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Professional specialty: Speech, Language, and Learning Disorders in Children and Adults
• State licensure: New York State
• Years of Fast ForWord product experience: 13 Years
• Time Zone: Eastern