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About Us

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Alicia Roberts Frank

Board Member 

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Alicia is a Regional Administrator for Special Programs/Dyslexia Specialist for ESD 113. In addition to serving as a WABIDA board member, she served on the boards of Decoding Dyslexia OR, ORCEC, ORBIDA and the WA and OR Dyslexia Advisory Committees. She holds an Ed.D in Learning and Instruction and is Slingerland trained. She taught first through 12th grades in public schools and a private elementary school for children with dyslexia. She taught pre-service teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels and now trains and coaches teachers, interventionists, and administrators. She has presented nationally and internationally on dyslexia and structured literacy instruction.

Catey Roe

Board Member 

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Catey is the immediate past president and has also served as both treasurer and vice president of WABIDA. She is the Director of Teaching and Learning at Westside School in West Seattle, which includes the learning support program. Catey spent the first ten years of her career teaching at schools for students with language-based learning differences, and is passionate about access to literacy for all.

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Sandy Cato

Board Member

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Sandy spends her work days teaching high school Language Arts in a Seattle area district.  Frustrated by the lack of resources for her students struggling to read, she started seeking ways to better address the needs of struggling readers in her classes.  Then her son’s personal struggles in the classroom led her to WABIDA.  She holds a BA in English from Western Washington University (1996), an MA in English Literary Studies from Eastern Washington University (2001), and a Masters in Teaching from Seattle University (2001). 

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Sonja Bradford

Board Member

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Sonja is a certified speech-language pathologist in the Seattle area. As a co-owner of a private practice in Mercer Island, WA, specializing in speech, language, and structured literacy instruction, assessment, remediation, and consultative services for K-12 students. Her interest in dyslexia, reading, and structured literacy began shortly after her first job working in public schools. She found that correcting speech sound disorders did fully support the language and literacy needs of struggling readers and students with developmental language disorders. This realization began a journey toward expertise in structured literacy and language disorders, directing speech & language services at a school for students with dyslexia and language-based learning differences, and to the WABIDA board.

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Deanna Youngren

Board Member

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Deanna is a 25-year veteran special education teacher, having worked in Alaska and Seattle area public middle and high schools. Currently, she is a behavior support specialist in the Kent School District. Deanna holds a B.A. in History & Political Science, magna cum laude, from Vanguard University and a M.A. in ELL and Leadership from Heritage University. Deanna’s active involvement in her local union, WEA and NEA brings a deep context to WABIDA about the lived experience of public school educators and systems in our state.

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