Leslie Maxwell Visits in First Grade

Ms. Maxwell is a consultant and professional development provider at the state and national levels in the area of oral language and early literacy.  She is currently an oral language and early literacy consultant for the Bay State Reading Initiative and a consulting author for Pearson Learning's Reading Street 2013 literacy curriculum.

She is a specialist in pediatric speech-language pathology with interests in the areas of language and literacy, early childhood disorder of communication, autism, school-age language learning disabilities, phonological disorders, and oral language instruction in regular education classrooms.

Ms. Maxwell will be conducting Read Alouds and model lessons with First Grade students.  She will also debrief with teachers around early literacy and oral language.