Addie Cusimano is an educational therapist who has been active in the field of education for more than thirty years. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education with psychology as a concentration and a Masters of Science degree in Education with reading as a concentration. She holds permanent New York and Pennsylvania State reading specialist and common branch subject teaching certificates. She worked as a classroom teacher and reading specialist for New York State public schools, and was director, diagnostician, clinician and teacher of a private school in upstate New York for seventeen years. This highly successful school offered diagnostic and individualized prescriptive work in remedial, developmental and enrichment areas for preschool through college level students.
Ms. Cusimano has taken supplementary graduate courses in the field of learning disabilities and has done extensive independent research related to students with learning disabilities. She has also designed and published a teaching program for the development of visual memory, entitled ACHIEVE: A Visual Memory Program, a workbook to develop auditory sequential memory of numbers, letters and words, entitled Auditory Sequential Memory Instructional Workbook, and a second workbook for the development of visual discrimination, entitled Visual Discrimination: Noting Differences in Frequently Misperceived Words. These highly successful teaching materials were the result of Ms. Cusimano's awareness of the serious need for teaching materials to help students develop specific learning skills such as visual memory, auditory sequential memory and visual discrimination of the most frequently misperceived words.
Book: Learning Disabilities: There is a Cure
Author: Addie Cusimano, M.ED.
