Susan J. Schwartz, MA Ed, is a learning specialist at the Child Mind Institute. She is an expert in child development, reading and literacy, learning disorders, and the development of language skills and higher-level reasoning skills in children and adolescents. She has been on the forefront of interdisciplinary approaches to evaluating and treating children and young adults with reading, writing, math and organizational difficulties, and has taught cognitive and language development as well as neuropsychology and advocacy to psychiatry trainees, and supervised psychology interns and postdoctoral neuropsychology fellows. A seasoned lecturer, Ms. Schwartz has presented at conferences nationwide on a wide range of topics, including learning differences versus learning disorders, understanding autism spectrum disorders, the myths and realities of standardized tests, and demystifying neuropsychological and educational reports.