Author Bios

Dr. Emily Levy is the founder and director of EBL Coaching, a specialized tutoring program that offers individualized one-on-one home and on-site instruction using research-based techniques. She is also the author of Strategies for Study Success, a study skills workbooks series emphasizing test taking, note taking, reading comprehension, writing, summarizing, and executive functioning strategies, along with Flags and Stars, an Orton Gillingham student workbook series that helps students develop their fundamental decoding and spelling skills. These workbooks are currently used at schools nationwide.

Dr. Levy graduated from Brown University and received her Masters Degree in Special Education from Nova University in Florida. She also completed her Doctorate Degree in Education from Nova University. She performed a five-year research study developing an alternative strategy for teaching reading comprehension and won a fifth place Westinghouse Science and Talent Award for this research. She has spoken at national and international conferences on research-based teaching methods, and serves on the board of the Learning Disability Association of New York State.