About Kate Gladstone
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
Bonnie Arnwine, President
National Autism Resources
Scott Badesch, President Emeritus
Autism Society of America
Christopher Banks, President
Autism Society of America
Damien Barchowsky, Manager
Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting/Swansbury, Inc
Joel Benjamin, Satisfied Adult Client
and father of two satisfied young clients, Altamont, NY 12009
Joyce Benjamin, Founder
AutismFYI.org
Yehudis Bernstein, Speech and Language Therapist
Bais Chomesh High School for Girls, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jan Boulerice, Continuing Medical Education
CVPH Medical Center, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Rick Buck, Acting Medical Director
Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, New York 12534
Cher Camacho, Family History Consultant
Volunteer Experience Museum Programs, Papillion, NE 68046
Harvey Castro, Director
Deep Pocket Series Software, Argyle, TX 76226
Maria Chevere, Director
Medical Education Speakers Network, Tustin, CA 92780
Sally Colletti, President
Autism Society of America, Vestal, NY 13850
Peter Connolly, Head of Medicine
Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, MA 01876
Karen Conrad, Publisher & Handwriting-Items eEvaluator
Therapro, Incorporated, Framingham, MA 01701
Cheri Dotterer, Dysgraphia Consultant
DysgraphiaConaultant.com, Harrisburg, PA 19526
Jonathan Dubay, President
Handwriting Success/Getty-Dubay Handwriting, Portland, OR 97229
Carol Gill, Founder
Carol Gill Associates, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Carolyn Glavan, Executive Director
Florida Health Information Management Association
Tampa, Florida 33625
Temple Grandin, Founder
Future Horizons, Arlington, TX 76011
Brigid Guertin, Executive Director
Danbury Museum and Historical Society, Danbury, CT 06810
Sue Hall, Director of Medical Staff Services,
Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan, Alabama 36302
Lucy Hernandez, Coordinator
Valley Baptist Internal Medicine Symposium
Valley Baptist Health System, Harlingen, Texas 78550
Judy Howell, Continuing Medical Education
Cherry Hospital, Goldsboro, NC 27530
Barbara Huffman, Continuing Medical Education
Carle Clinic Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL 61802
Bais Chomesh High School for Girls
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6A 2C9
Terri Jenkins, Supervisor of Medical Staff Services
Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale, CA 91206
Roger and Nancy Jestel, satisfied parents of a young client
Altamont, NY 12009
Kathy Johnson, Director
Pyramid of Potential Learning Center, Burnt Hills, NY 12027
Janine Kruiswijk, Director
Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region
Schenectady, NY 12305
Pat Lamar, Continuing Medical Education
St. Helena’s Adventist Medical Center, Deer Park, CA 94576
Frank Limper, Owner
Federalist Pens & Paper, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Melissa C. Long, Education Coordinator
Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC), Charleston, WV 25304
Minerva Mathews, Continuing Medical Education
Delray Beach Medical Center, Delray, FL 33484
Richard McManus, Fluency Factory Tutoring Center
Cohasset, MA 02025
Ajit and Jill Mehra, Parents
of three satisfied young clients, Kinderhook, NY 12106
Leslie Miller, Continuing Medical Education
White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Ronald N. Morris, Forensic Document Examiner
Member of the Association of Forensic Document Examiners
P.O. Box 905, Bedford, VA 24523
Riccardo Murrau, Founder and Owner
Pennamnia & FOOLISH Magazine
Christine Parker, Training Division
The Princeton Review, New York, NY 10024
Don Potter, Principal
Odessa Christian School, Odessa, TX 79761
Sarah Rainsberger, Director
Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents and Mostly Math Enrichment Centre, North York , Ontario, Canada MN 2K7
Robert Rose, M.D. and Literacy Researcher
Jasper, Georgia 30143
Rabbi Zev Silber, Principal
Hillel Academy of Broome County, Vestal, NY 13850
Charlene Sanders, FMily Support Program Coordinator, Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region, Schenectady, NY
Geri Schimmel, RN, MS, Clinical Educator, Special Projects, Organizational Learning
Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL 33176
Martin Seltman, Residency Director
West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15101
Tim Sharp, President
WebTeamCorp Educational Software, Secaucus, New Jersey 08873
Marc Sherman, Director
Heddington Learning Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MN 2K7
Hans-Leo Teulings, Director
Neuroscript Software, Tempe, AZ 85282
Ben Topham, Headmaster
Providence Day School, Charlotte, NC 28270
Emily Will, MA, CDE (Certified Document Examiner)
member of the Association of Forensic Document Examiners
P.O. Box 58552, Raleigh, NC 27658
Yvonne Graham, Founder
DyslexiaKit.net
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