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Director and Founder - Lydia H. Soifer Ph.D.

Dr. Soifer is a language specialist and educational consultant with more than thirty-five years experience in clinical practice.

Dr. Soifer has spent over 30 years studying the relationship between language, cognition, and learning.Dr. Soifer is much in demand as a parent educator, teacher trainer, and staff developer in independent and public schools. She is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, parent associations, and educator training workshops. 

Dr. Soifer regularly offers courses in aspects of cognition, language development, disorders and assessment and their relationship to literacy and learning. She uses her warm, thoughtful, humorous style and extensive child development expertise to teach parents, educators and other professionals about learning, behavior, communication and the nature of language functioning in academic performance and success.

Since 1992, Dr. Soifer has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and faculty member in the Early Intervention Training Institute, both at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She has taught courses on Language Development and Disorders at Columbia University and other New York area colleges.

Dr. Soifer is the language consultant to the Windward School, an independent day school for children with language-based learning disabilities. She is a faculty member of the Windward Teacher Training Institute, where she teaches a wide variety of courses.

A discussion of Dr. Soifer's extensive understanding of this area can be found in a chapter she authored entitled Development of Oral Language and Its Relationship to Literacy in the textbook Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills.

Dr. Soifer also serves as the Executive Director of the Best Children's Foundation (BCF), a non-profit educational foundation. BCF provides parents and education industry professionals know-how and skills that encourage and support individuality and independence in children.