Lydia Soifer is a language pathologist with over 45 years of experience in clinical and private practice, as well as university teaching. She was the founder and director of The Soifer Center for Learning and Child Development, the first multidisciplinary private diagnostic and remedial setting established in Westchester County.

Lydia continues to provide educational consultation and advocacy services to families on behalf of their children, in coordination with other professionals and schools. As a parent educator, teacher trainer, and staff developer, she specializes in the role of language in the development of children’s learning, literacy, behavior, and social-emotional development. Classroom Language Dynamics©, the teacher training program she designed is used in a variety of school settings to empower teachers and invigorate learners of all kinds.

A frequent presenter at local, national and international conferences, Lydia focuses on guiding all educational professionals to answer the essential question, “Who is this child?” She is also the author of a chapter entitled, The Development of Oral Language and its Relationship to Literacy for a textbook published in September 1999 by Brookes, Multisensory Structured Language Teaching: Theory and Practice, now published in a 4^th edition, as well as a contributor to local publications. Additionally, she is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and faculty member in the Early Intervention Training Institute (EITI), both at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.