May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States

• North Central Florida's only transdisciplinary team of professionals bringing expert services to children, teens, college students & adults. TMCPVB's expert services are backed by three 5-year, Randomized Controlled Trials research studies which provided unequivocal evidence of successful early intervention, remediation and even neurorehabilitation of language, literacy, working memory, and academic skills and abilities. TMCPVB will be offering the following services:
• TMCPVB Transdisciplinary Training program:
• 1:1, integrated, comprehensive and neurodevelopmental guided OT, Psych, Speech-Pathology, Academic Tutoring. This is TMCPVB's highly effective, most efficient and most comprehensive service program [this program began at original The Morris Center clinic when it opened in 1986] that has been pioneered for over 35 years.
• TMCPVB Small Group program:
• Using two of the world-renown, evidence based, Neuro-development of Words - NOW! Company's intervention programs to "close the gaps" in reading accuracy, reading fluency, spelling, auditory memory/auditory working memory and executive functions:
• 1. NOW! Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading and Spelling(R)
• 2. NOW! Mental Imagery for Language, Comprehension, Memory and Reasoning(R)
• These programs are delivered in small groups with one TMCPVB instructor to four students.
• TMCPVB Advancement Classrooms
• In Fall 2021, TMCPVB will offer two classroom based options of services:
• Elementary Advancement (G1-G4) and
• Middle School Advancement Classrooms (G5-G8)
• These classrooms serve up to 8 students each in a 1:4 ratio of teacher to student directed instruction across all core academic subjects and meeting Sunshine State educational standards per grade; however, these students will also participate in small group advanced services daily, using both the NOW! Foundations, for Speech, Language, Reading and Spelling(R) program and the NOW! Mental Imagery for Language, Comprehension, Memory and Reasoning(R) program.

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 7 mos · Trinidad and Tobago

• At TMCTT Dr Conway leads a Transdisciplinary Team of healthcare professionals (Clinical Psych, School Psych, SLP, OT, Recreational Therapy) and educators in the expert practice of evidence-based transdisciplinary assessment, diagnosis & treatment of learning, language, speech, sensorimotor and behavioral disorders (e.g. Dyslexia, Sensory Processing Disorder, ADD/ADHD, Non-verbal learning disabilities, ASD, and Learning Disorders).
• Since 1986, TMC in Florida’s clinical team of professionals have diagnosed and successfully treated over 1,000 children and adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The Morris Centre Trinidad and Tobago is unique in that it is based on TMC USA’s peer-reviewed, NIH funded research on foundational aspects of treatment programs, providing true scientific evidence of the consistent effectiveness of its neurodevelopmental model for diganosis and highly successful evidence-based treatment outcomes for both children and adults. TMCTT specializes in 1st improving clients’ brain processing of sensory, language, motor, reasoning, attention, mood, memory and then the improvement of academic, language, social, interpersonal, occupational and life skills.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Metro Jacksonville

• At Jacksonville University, as a member of the new Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare Sciences, Dept of Communication Sciences and Disorder, Dr. Conway helped train graduate students in Speech-Language Pathology. Dr. Conway taught the summer course titled Reading Disabilities, which provided students a state-of-the-art knowledge of neurobiology, neurodevelopmental, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment of dyslexia/Specific Learning Disability in Reading. The renouned text for this course was essential reading for a range of researchers, clinicians, and other professionals interested in reading and reading disability, and commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Extraordinary Brain Conferences hosted by The Dyslexia Foundation. "How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice" edited by Dr Ken Pugh and Peggy McCardle. Included in this advanced training course was a set of instructional materials & training in the NOW! Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading and Spelling® program, an evidence-based, highly effective program for prevention/early intervention or remediation (for any age student) of phonological awareness and decoding deficits.
• http://www.nowprograms.com/programs/now-foundations

Aug 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States

• NOW! Programs® (aka Neuro-development of Words - NOW! company) brings online instruction for Dyslexia & LD’s to children through adults, globally. Also, NOW! Programs® publishes research and evidence-based programs that empower dyslexia, reading disabilities and difficulties in phonological processing/ auditory working memory, reading or listening comprehension, grammar and writing, and mathematics.
• Also, NOW! Programs® provides individualized, interactive, live online Tutoring services in 4 proprietary programs for children, teens, college students and adults. Enrichment or prevention services for anyone with a strong family history of learning difficulties and or sensory or motor skill difficulties are available. Lastly, NOW! Company provides professional teacher training courses both on-site within The Einstein School (1st USA charter school only for Dyslexia/LD’s) in Gainesville, Florida.

Jun 2010 – Jan 2024 · 13 yrs 7 mos

• Affiliated faculty member providing guest lectures, graduate student mentoring and membership on Masters and Doctoral committees.

Oct 2004 – Jan 2024 · 19 yrs 3 mos

• Neuropsychology faculty member providing guest lectures, graduate student mentoring, committee membership on Masters and Doctoral committees, and neuropsychological research.

Oct 2001 – May 2013 · 11 yrs 7 mos · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

• fMRI of Aphasia Treatment (acquired reading impairment known as Phonological Alexia and acquired spelling impairment known as Phonological Agraphia)
• Funded Grants:
• 2003-2005 Associate Investigator, Career Development Award, “fMRI in Aphasia” Division of Research, Rehabilitation and Development, Veteran’s Administration.
• 2005-2008 Investigator, Career Development Award, “Reliability & Variability of Repeated fMRI of Language in Aphasic Adults,” Division of Research, Rehabilitation and Development, Veteran’s Administration.
• 2008 Supplemental Career Development funding award, Division of Research, Rehabilitation and Development, Veteran’s Administration
• 2009-2012 Investigator, Career Development Award Level-II, “Multimodal
• Treatment of Phonological Alexia: Behavioral and fMRI outcomes.”
• Division of Research, Rehabilitation and Development, Veteran’s
• Administration.

May 1999 – Present · 26 yrs 11 mos · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

• The Einstein School (TES) is the USA’s 1st 501(c)3 not-for-profit public/charter school ONLY for children with language/learning difficulties (e.g. dyslexia, reading disability, spelling problems, expressive or receptive language disorders, disorder of written language, speech difficulties) in grades 2 through 8.
• As the 1st Charter school for children with Dyslexia in the USA, TES uses evidence-based & highly effective programs, as well as research-based programs from the Neuro-development of Words - NOW! Company www.NOWprograms.com to help ~115 children learn to read, spell, write, comprehend and complete mathematics problems & achieve academic success. The goal for each student at TES is to at least perform on grade level in all skills and classes and return to their regular ed school with few to no accommodations.
• The Einsteins School is completely FREE (no tuition) for all students to attend. In this video, the TES students and their parents, grandparents and teachers personally share how much they have improved their literacy and academic skills and how that has changed their self-esteem and future life goals.
• www.EinsteinSchool.us/about-us/testimonial

May 1998 – Jun 1998 · 1 mo · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

• With mentor Dr Joseph Torgesen and his FSU colleagues, Dr Conway provided expert consultation on the design, elements and content/structure of the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP).

Dec 1989 – Present · 36 yrs 4 mos · Ocala, Florida

• Transdisciplinary team of professionals (researchers and clinicians) dedicated to research-based & evidence-based team assessment for the purpose of coordinated & comprehensive team treatment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders of learning, language, speech, sensor & motor, attention and mood/behavioral disorders (e.g. Dyslexia, Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Non-verbal learning disabilities, learning disabilities, language disorders, ASD, Downs Syndrome’s literacy & language needs).
• Since 1986 (1st clinic was in Gainesville, FL), TMC’s team of professionals have diagnosed and successfully treated over 1,000 children and adults. The Morris Center is unique in that it has conducted NIH funded research on foundational aspects of its treatment programs, providing true scientific evidence of the consistent effectiveness of its neurodevelopmental model for diganosis and highly successful treatments.
• www.TheMorrisCenter.com

Dec 1986 – Dec 1989 · 3 yrs · San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

• Staff member trained by Patricia Lindamood & Phyllis Lindamood and consultant at the San Luis Medical Clinic and later at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes. Consultant from LBLP at Graceland College, Lamoni, IA during the inaugural year of the Graceland Collge CHANCE program for students with learning disabilities. Consultant from Lindamood-Bell Learning process for an adult with severe dyslexia’s SPECT imaging and intensive treatment study, initially at The Morris Center clinic (Dec 1989) in Gainesville, FL.

Dec 1986 – Aug 1987 · 8 mos · San Luis Obispo, California

• Worked with Patricia Conway Lindamood and a dozen other staff at the San Luis Medical Clinic to assist Pat's employee, Nancy Bell, in the development of the Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking program; see insert acknowledgements paragraph of first edition of V/V manual (1986).