Suzanne Schneider, M.S. Ed., C-SLDI is a Literacy & Dyslexia Specialist Academic Tester, Advocate, Academic Tutor, and Parent & Teacher Educator. She received a Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University in 1993 and a Master’s Degree from Hunter College in Special Education, with a concentration in learning disorders, in 1995. She started her career as a public school teacher first in NYC, then in Westchester County. During her 12+ years in public education, she served as a general education classroom teacher, special education integrated co-teacher and a reading specialist.

She has been tutoring and advocating for students, who had a variety of learning disabilities and special needs, since 1993. Her passion for the field of special education and literacy stems from her own late diagnosis of a learning disability, while in high school, and from her husband’s heart-wrenching early experiences.

In addition to her private practice, Westchester Educational Services, which offers tutoring, advocacy, and literacy assessments, she is a literacy consultant to several Westchester Public School Districts. She offers training to incorporate multi- sensory techniques into all content areas, executive function training, dyslexia awareness, phonological awareness training, structured literacy approaches and the science of teaching reading. Her training includes, but is not limited to, several Orton- Gillingham approaches, Lindamood-Bell, and Writing Revolution. She has utilized these approaches to help students with learning disabilities and special needs for over 25 years.

Her passion for helping families led Suzanne to start the Westchester Chapter of Decoding Dyslexia. Through DDNY she offers free advocacy services, holds meetings and events to create awareness about dyslexia and to support the Westchester.