After many years as a teacher specializing in students with dyslexia and language disorders, Adrienne eagerly returned to graduate school to become a speech-language pathologist. She wanted to fully understand the connections between oral language development, speech sounds, reading, and writing. She graduated with a Master of Science in Communication Disorders from Georgia State University in 2019, and earned the top academic achievement award for her graduating class of speech-language pathologists (SLPs). During her clinical rotations, she treated a diverse patient population, including adults with brain injuries at Emory University hospital, students with moderate-severe language and learning disabilities in Fulton County Schools, and children with autism and Down syndrome in pediatric private practice. After graduation, she returned to working with the disorders she is most passionate about: dyslexia, dysgraphia, expressive/receptive language disorders, and executive functioning deficits, such as ADHD. In addition to her work as an SLP, she has spent the past three years studying with Literacy How, an evidence-based structured literacy training program. As a Literacy How coach, she helped teachers adopt more effective literacy instruction and oral language promotion in the classroom.

Adrienne draws upon her certification in Orton-Gillingham (OG) through the Institute of Multi-Sensory Education to target phonics and early reading skills. She loves to supplement OG with Structured Word Inquiry (SWI), especially for older students who are ready to tackle morphology and etymology. She finds it very beneficial to target prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, and sentence syntax with students who have benefitted from an OG approach to decoding and spelling. Other programs and curriculum she uses include: Story Grammar marker for improved listening and reading comprehension; Framing Your Thoughts to target writing and grammar skills; a variety of Lindamood-Bell programs such as LiPS and Visualizing and Verbalizing; and Infercabulary, a structured vocabulary development tool that also builds semantic reasoning skills.

In addition to her M.S. from Georgia State University, Adrienne earned B.A. from Boston University in 2004. She maintains her Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) as well as SLP licensure in the state of Georgia. She is also a member of the International Dyslexia Association.

In her free time, Adrienne enjoys reading, playing board games (Wingspan and Carcassonne are favorites), and pursuing watersports with her two kids and husband.