Tanya Chartier
Tanya Chartier holds a B.A. degree in English Literature from Denison
University ('93) and a M.A. degree in the Teaching of Reading from
Western Michigan University. After being awarded a Presidential Medal
and the Kussmaul Friendship Award at Denison, studying literacy in
Japan as a Fulbright Fellow, and completing her graduate studies, Tanya
taught at the middle school level where she was named Sallie Mae First
Class Teacher Award Nominee for her district in her first year. She
taught middle school Theatre Arts and/or Reading for 5 years in the
public schools in Colorado, multi-age 4th/5th at a private school in
Washington and now resides here in Davidson, where she has substituted
at Community School of Davidson and tutored at The Davidson Center. As an Educational Therapist, Tanya draws on her years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and her experiences as a graduate assistant, in which she served as both a clinician and supervisor of diagnostic teaching. As a reading specialist, Tanya integrated her clinical knowledge of the whole child who needs to be surrounded by written and spoken language with an ever-broadening repertoire of evidence-based, specialized approaches. She gained further proof of the benefits of multi-sensory approaches such as Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood-Bell when remediating. She has added Wilson Language Systems and Fast ForWord to her inventory while at The Davidson Center.
