The DLS Team
DLS-trained Clinical Developmental Learning Specialists are at the heart of DLS's work with learners of all kinds. Educational therapy, assessments, parent and school support, and long-term educational planning are just some of the services they provide.
DLS clinical specialists create detailed learning plans and work with all types of learners including those in need of support for:
Contact Us for more information on how we can help. See more about our team, below.
DLS-trained Clinical Developmental Learning Specialists are at the heart of DLS's work with learners of all kinds. Educational therapy, assessments, parent and school support, and long-term educational planning are just some of the services they provide.
DLS clinical specialists create detailed learning plans and work with all types of learners including those in need of support for:
- dyslexia and reading delays
- processing differences
- language disorders and delays / comprehension and expression
- language and pragmatics (often associated with Asperger's, PDD, NLD)
- writing / creative and academic
- dysgraphia
- academic & life coaching
Contact Us for more information on how we can help. See more about our team, below.
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DLS Founder & Director, John R. Fleming, M. Ed., BCET (Board Certified Educational Therapist)
and the Assessment Team 
Mr. Fleming has a Master’s degree in Special Education with concentrations in Learning Disabilities, and in Emotional Disturbances that Affect Learning, and is a board-certified educational therapist. He was Coordinator of the Cognitive Development Program at the Reading Center of George Washington University, and helped develop the Educational Therapy certificate program at University of California-Santa Cruz Extension Program where he teaches. He has also taught at University of California Berkeley Extension, Holy Names University, and George Washington University.
In his role as director of DLS, he oversees a staff of more than two dozen learning professionals. He also provides direct consultation, assessments & educational therapy, and in-depth training; he works as an advisor and board member to schools that serve students with learning differences. Our Assessment Team includes:
Developmental Educational Assessors Carrie Messina, ET/P, M.A.:
Angela Muonio, ET/P, M.A.:
Psychological (Fleming-Leib Integral Process) Assessor Rebecca Leib, Ph.D.
Speech & Language Assessor Liz W. Frost, M.A., CCC-SLP
Special Program Co-Creator Sheila Cliff, M. Ed., M.A.
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Educational Therapy with DLS Learning Specialists:
Carrie Messina, ET/P, M.A.: Certified Educational Therapist / Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist, Assessment Specialist
Margaret Messina, M.A.: Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist
Angela Muonio, ET/P, M.A.: Certified Educational Therapist / Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist
Kamau Norman-Terrance: Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist
Judyth Suttle, M.S., M.A., BCET: Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist / Board-Certified Educational Therapist
Shyam Srinivasan, B.A.: Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist
Sujatha Srinivasan, B.E., ET/P: Certified Educational Therapist, Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist/Assessment Specialist
Garrick Wahlstrand, M.A.: Clinical Developmental Learning Specialist / Directed Studies Coordinator / Internal Director
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