Kristen Cox is a highly trained special education teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching multisensory reading. She received her Master’s Degree in Literacy from Mount Saint Mary College, and a Bachelor of Arts from Marist College in Psychology and Special Education. As a full-time special education teacher, Kristen has extensive experience working with children with language-based reading disabilities such as dyslexia. She has been an elementary special education teacher for the Wappingers Central School District for the past 20 years.

Kristen is currently an Associate practitioner of the Orton Gillingham Academy. She also was certified at Level 1 and Group Instruction from the Wilson Academy. Kristen has created and implemented multisensory reading lessons in both a school setting and through private tutoring since 2002. She is currently working with a Fellow of the Academy of Orton Gillingham and has participated in over 160 hours of both professional development and practicum hours as she pursues the goal of becoming a Fellow.

Kristen has been tutoring students privately for many years and is excited to join the staff at Sensory Stepping Stones and work with families in this community!