Coordinator of Professional Services

Barbara Bobrow, M.A.

Educational Psychology (McGill). Barbara is a learning disabilities specialist, a founding member of the Learning Associates of Montreal and its Coordinator of Professional Services. Since she evaluates students from kindergarten to university graduate level, she has extensive knowledge of how learning disabilities manifest themselves at different stages of life. For decades, Barbara has served as a consultant to many Jewish parochial schools, as well as very isolated school communities in the Cree, Inuit and Lower North Shore areas of Quebec, flying in small planes or helicopters and snowmobiling to these schools to help teachers and children. Besides giving many workshops and conferences, she has lectured and given courses at both McGill and Concordia.


Clinicians

Daisy Grinberg, Ph.D.

(McGill University), member of the OPQ, Daisy received her graduate training in School Psychology and Applied Child Psychology. Dr. Grinberg began conducting psycho-educational assessments of children, adolescents and adults at The Learning Associates of Montreal in 2001. At LAM she has also provided therapy to individuals with social emotional difficulties and learning disabilities. Prior to joining LAM, Dr. Grinberg worked with children at the Jewish General Hospital, the Montreal Children’s Hospital and Summit School. Other highlights of her work include having facilitated a parent support group in Kanesetake and assessing children at parochial schools. In addition, through CEGEP Marie-Victorin, she has taught a course on Learning Disabilities to Beth Jacob Seminary students. Recently, Dr. Grinberg has also worked directly in schools within the English Montreal School Board assessing students with an array of difficulties (e.g. autism, cognitive delays, and learning disabilities) and providing consultation to their teachers.

Dr. Sean Scanlan

Psychoeducational assessments, individual counselling and psychotherapy

Olga Guiducci, PhD

Psychoeducational assessments

Katie Saunders PhD

Katie studied Applied child psychology at McGill University. As of October 2010 she is teaming up with the Learning Associates of Montreal to provide bilingual services, including psycho-educational assessments. She has been working with students in difficulty for the past few years.


Mina Popliger, PhD



OUR ORTHOPÉDAGOGUES AND REMEDIATION SPECIALISTS

Orthopédagogues

Caroline Charboneau
Julie-Christine Dumont
Carolyne Gauthier
Anastasia Karagiannakis
Houda Nasreddine
Augusta Onofrei
Gaëlle Roy
Raveca Rus
Mélanie Tremblay

Remediation Specialists

Paula Cook
Diane Dumouchel
Susan Fairbrother

Brian Foote
Carole Gellman
Clara Heath-Engel
Anastasia Karagiannakis
Alexander Kulczyk
Vanessa Millington
Houda Nasreddine
Sharon Rasnikoff
Roslyn Resnick
Nancy Steeves
Orysia Waskiw



 


OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Sharron Gersovitz
Johanne St-Onge
Nelson Mendoza

Carolyn Dandenault
Renée Sutton
Alexandra Ieraci