Maureen Martindale, M.A.

Biography

         Maureen Martindale holds an M.A. in writing and a B.A. in English from the University of Baltimore. Her continuing education includes over 100 hours of tutor training in reading and writing methodologies and 21 credits of undergraduate coursework in counseling. An Orton-Gillingham reading tutor, trained at Jemicy School and Bowman Educational Services, she received supervision for three years from Dr. Ann M. Bain, a diagnostic and prescriptive reading and writing specialist.

         Maureen Martindale served as full-time faculty in the Department of English, Speech and Foreign Languages at Baltimore City Community College and developed a process-writing course there. Ninety-nine percent of her students passed a college-wide proficiency test in writing. She has served as a reading tutor in the Brown Memorial Tutoring Program and the Dyslexia Tutoring Program and as a writing specialist in the Adults CAN Learn program. She worked in the FAS reading program for dyslexic learners sponsored by the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. She has also worked as a counselor in the Student Assistance Program and for a Baltimore County Youth Services Bureau non-profit. She is a former director of the Tutoring Network of Baltimore, an organization that sponsors continuing education workshops for Orton-Gillingham tutors. As a full-time professional tutor and academic coach, she has maintained a private practice since 1993, focusing on students ages five to eighteen who have reading, writing, attention and executive function issues.

         Her presentations include the keynote address on Advocacy Day at Jemicy School, a workshop on Reading, Writing, Attention and Executive Function at the International Dyslexia Association’s national conference; workshops for CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder); a workshop for the Women’s Center at Loyola University in Maryland on the special challenges faced by women and girls with ADHD; and a workshop for Language College Ireland on the efficacy of the Orton-Gillingham reading method. She has also conducted workshops on ADHD through the Archdiocese of Baltimore, including a presentation at their Conference on Family Life.

         Research-based articles include “Reading Disorders” in The Maryland Psychologist and “A Double-Edged Sword: ADHD” in the National Student Assistance Journal. Popular articles in Maryland Family Magazine include “Tutoring to Succeed: With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Parent Power: Local Parents Start New Schools,” and “What’s Next: Advocating for Your Child.” Her poetry has appeared in The Main Street Rag, Scribble, Odessa Review, City Paper, P’an Ku and Lambda Iota Tau. Her prose publications include a short story in P'an Ku and a work of creative non-fiction in Pilgrimage.

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