Education
MLS, 1990 — Long Island University
BA, 1988 Linguistics — University of Pennsylvania

Relevant Employment/Experience

Handwriting Advice Columnist
For quarterly English-language edition of FOOLISH MAGAZINE, the organ of the international pen collectors’/handwriting advocates’ organization pennamania.com
2022-present

Handwriting Instruction Application Content Provider and Designer for
Educational Software Firms:
WebTeamCorp.com (iPad application READ CURSIVE),
January 2013—September 2013
DeepPocketSeries.com (iPhone/iPod Touch application BETTER LETTERS),
September 2013—January 2018

Handwriting Remediation Consultant/Provider for Staff and/or Students:
Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region, Schenectady, NY
December 2012

Alternative Education Conference of the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 2006

Bais Chomesh High School for Girls
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 2006

Heddington Learning Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 2006

Carol Gill Associates
Dobbs Ferry, NY
March 2005

Princeton Review
New York City, NY
February 2005

Providence Day School
Charlotte, NC
October 2004

Hillel Academy of Broome County
Binghamton, NY
August 2003

Broome-Tioga Chapter of Autism Society of America, Vestal, NY
August 2003

Handwriting Remediation Consultant/Provider for
MDs and Other Healthcare Professionals:

West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh/Monroeville, PA
November 2007

Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood, NJ
August 2006

Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park, CA
April 2006

East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
April 2006

Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC), Charleston, WV
January 2006

Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL
September 2005

Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan, AL
August 2005

Florida Health Information Management Association, Orlando, FL
July 2005

Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, FL
June 2005, May 2003

Saints Memorial Medical Center, Lowell, MA
April 2005

Cherry Hospital, Goldsboro, NC
March 2005

Valley Baptist Medical Center (Internal Medicine Symposium), Harlingen, TX
November 2004

Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA
December 2003

Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, NY
November/December 2003, March-May 1996

Medical Education Speakers Network (MESN), Tustin, CA
Presented medical legibility workshops for MESN at Anaheim Medical Center
June 2003

Anaheim, CA; San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital, Banning, CA; Garden Grove Medical Center, Garden Grove, CA; and Whittier Hospital, Whittier, CA.)
Champlain Valley Physician’s Hospital (CVPH) Medical Center
Plattsburgh, NY
April 2003

St. Helena’s Adventist Hospital, Deer Park, CA
October 2002

Glendale Adventist Medical Center/White Memorial Medical Center,
Glendale, CA/Los Angeles, CA
February 2001, March 2002, May and June 2005

Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Massachusetts
January 2002

Carle Clinic Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois
August 2001

“Book Review: Read Cursive Fast” in The Pennant (quarterly of the Pen Collectors of America), Spring 2021, Page 6

“A+ for Autism: Kate Gladstone” in Newsletter of the Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region, October 12, 2012,

Script and Scribble: the Rise and Fall of Handwriting (ch. 5, pp. 172-178)
by Kitty Burns Florey. New York: Melville House, 2009. 190 pp.

“Computer Pushes Out Cursive Writing” in ABC News Technology & Science report, November 17, 2007: on-line at
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/CSM/story?id=3861304&page=1

“The End of Cursive?” in Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2007 — pages 13 and 15: on-line at http://
www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p13s01-legn.html

“In Digital Age, More t’s are Crossed Poorly” in Boston Globe, May 6, 2007 – Section A, pages 1 and 30

“Could You Read That?” in Medical Economics, April 6, 2007 – pages 68-70

“Time for Some Hand-Wringing Over Handwriting” in On Board (newsletter of the New York State Association of School
Boards), July 31, 2006 – page 9

“Liability in Illegibility” in Florida Medical Business, June 27, 2006 – pages 1-2 and 12-13

“Death by Handwriting” in Trustee, October 5, 2005 – pages 29-32

“Why Crossing Your T’s Matters” in Chicago Tribune, August 9, 2005 – Technology Section, page 2

“Back to the Basics of a Legible Hand” in New York Times, January 19, 2005 – Section B, page 8

“In A Scribbler’s World, The Fountain Pen’s Flourish Gets Some Glory” in New York Times, July 26, 2004 – Section E,
page 1

“The Write Stuff ” in Hospital Doctor (UK), October 17, 2002 – page 36

“Thou Shalt Write Legibly” in StudentBMJ (student publication of the British Medical Journal) with sidebar by Kate Gladstone, September 2003 -pages 324 – 325

“Street Talk: A Slip of the Pen” in Albany (NY) Capital District Business Review, October 27, 1998 – page 1 and following

“Handwriting in the Computer Age” (Iowa Week special feature newscast)
on WOI Radio (Ames, Iowa NPR affiliate) – October 26, 1997

“Poor Physician Penmanship” in JAMA (Chicago, IL), October 1, 1997 (PULSE section) – pp. 1116-111

National (UK) Handwriting Association
Society for Italic Handwriting
Handwriting Collaborative, Founding Member
Autism Society of America, Member of Program Committee and Council of Autistic Advisors

WebTeam Corporation “Innovation for Autism” Award, January 2014
Who’s Who in America, 2011 edition