Joan Steinberg, M.Ed. is the assistant director of education at the Research Institute for Learning and Development (ResearchILD) in Lexington, Massachusetts. She provides consultations to parents and teachers, as well as assessment and educational therapy to students. As a math specialist at ResearchILD, she has given professional development workshops in multisensory and strategic math strategy instruction to teachers in public and private schools. In addition, she has expertise in working with students with nonverbal learning disabilities and has presented workshops on the topic. Prior to working at ResearchILD, she was a special education teacher and then the director of education at The Harbor Schools, Inc., a residential treatment center for adolescents with learning, behavioral and emotional disabilities.