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Authorship Team
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Program Authors & Advisors
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Program
Author 
Michal Rosenberg, Ph.D
Michal Rosenberg, Ph.D has over thirty years of teaching and consulting
experience in the field of special education. Her main expertises
are in program development and counseling in the areas of reading
instruction and early reading intervention.
She is the author of several language curriculums for reading and
emergent literacy, including the book Mapping and Categorizing
of Diagnostic Methods of Learning Disabilities. Her papers
were presented at various professional conferences; including the
Israeli Association for Child Development and Rehabilitation and
the Interdisciplinary Clinical Center at Haifa University.
Dr. Rosenebrg was a professor at The Gordon Teachers College and
currently is serving as the President of Didactica, Inc., a company
that develops curriculum and educational games.
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Academic
Reviewers
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Phyllis C. Hunter
Mrs. Hunter, president of Phyllis C. Hunter Consulting, Inc., was
appointed by Congress and President Bush to the board of the National
Institute for Literacy and has served as an advisor on the President’s
Educational Transition Team. Mrs. Hunter’s tenure in education
includes serving as an administrator with the Houston Independent
School District, principal, teacher, curriculum specialist, certified
speech and language therapist and special education specialist.
In addition, she is a board member of The International Reading
Association. In 2002, she was honored with the Marcus Foster Memorial
Award for Distinguished Educator of the Year by the National Alliance
of Black School Educators.
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Cathy Collins
Block
Dr. Cathy Collins Block is a Professor of Education at Texas Christian
University in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a member of the Editorial
Boards for the American Psychological Association, International
Reading Association, and National Reading Conference. Cathy was
the recipient of the prestigious Paul A. Witty Award for Meritorious
Service from International Reading Association (1998), received
the TCU Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Research from
the School of Education (1999). Cathy has written numerous college
textbooks, is an author of the Stanford Early School Achievement
Test (The Psychological Corporation), and has written more than
60 research articles.
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