Carolee Dean, M.S., CCC-SLP, CALT is a board-certified speech-language pathologist, a dyslexia interventionist, and a member of ALTA. She is a former president of the Southwest Branch of IDA, representative for the Western Region of IDA, Adjunct Instructor at Providence College, Founder of Word Travel Press LLC and a creator of decodable books. She is a frequent speaker at educational conferences and the author of Story Frames for Teaching Literacy: Enhancing Student Learning Through the Power of Storytelling (Brookes Publishing, April 2021). Dean has spent over 20 years working in the public schools (two years as a teletherapist) with students from K-12 and is now in private practice. She is also the author of award-winning young adult fiction.