Laurie Dietzel, Ph.D.

Weinfeld Education Group, LLC Presents…

Diamonds in the Rough
Smart Kids Who Learn Differently

March 11- 13, 2010
University of Maryland
Shady Grove
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

Biography:

Dr. Laurie Dietzel is a licensed psychologist in D.C. and Maryland who completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the Kennedy-Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has worked at day and residential schools for children with learning and more severe developmental disabilities and served as Director of Diagnostic Services at Kingsbury, a private nonprofit educational organization, in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dietzel is currently in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland at Dietzel Butler & Associates (www.dietzelbutler.com), conducting evaluations with children and adults and providing local and national trainings to mental health, medical, and educational professionals.

Areas of expertise include AD/HD, executive dysfunction, learning disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, giftedness, anxiety disorders, and adopted children with early institutional care. She is the co-author, with Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Ph.D., of Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning (Woodbine Press, 2008), www.latelostandunprepared.com.