Judy Lewis is a true NvLD Pioneer: She was a co-founder, board member and vice president of the former Nonverbal Learning Disorders Association (NvLDA), a national non-profit corporation that championed education, support and advocacy for people with Nonverbal Learning Disorders. She was one of the first members and organizers of the Board of Trustees of the then newly-established Orion School in Northern California, the first high school in the United States established exclusively for students with NvLD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Judy is the creator, webmistress and administrator of the NvLD Connection website www.NvLDConnection.com, formerly www.NLDline.com.

A private tutor and educational consultant for thirty years, Judy is involved in many aspects of support and education for the learning disabled. She is co-founder and Board Member Emerita of Chartwell School in Monterey, California, an educational institution primarily  for children with language-based learning disabilities.

In 1998, she was introduced to a student with NvLD and spent six hours a day in a one-on-one pullout program with this seventh grade girl.  It was during that school year that Judy realized just how little was known about NvLD, and she decided to commit her educational expertise to Nonverbal Learning Disorders. Soon, she became a member of the Board of SHARE Support Inc., whose president was then Sue Thompson. Sue’s book, I Shouldn’t Have To Tell You (now renamed The Source for Nonverbal Learning Disorders LinguiSystems, publisher), had recently been self-published, and Judy learned much from working with Sue and with the parents of various-aged children with this learning difference.

Judy Lewis is a graduate of UCLA, where she interned and tutored at the associated Fernald Clinic School before earning her degree in education, teaching school for three years and opening her private tutorial practice. Judy then opened her coaching practice to individuals with NvLD, parents, teachers, and associated team members working within this field.

Judy has demonstrated time and time again that positive, appropriate intervention can maximize the cognitive, social and emotional development of individuals with learning disabilities, no matter their age.