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MaryKate DeSantis, Ed.M, CAS (she/her/hers) is a clinical researcher at MGH Institute of Health Professions in the Speech Language鈥�鈥疞iteracy Lab. Prior to her role in research, she was a practitioner for Boston Public 69传媒 for over a decade in a variety of roles including, a special educator, reading and inclusion specialist, and district wide literacy coach.鈥疭he is the founder of鈥疞eft Side Strong LLC, an organization that works to bridge the research to practice gaps in schools, support families and caregivers to understand their child鈥檚 learning profile and spread awareness in the science behind literacy and language learning. MaryKate is part of the鈥疞earning Disabilities Translational Science Collective鈥痳esearch team as part of a five- year grant aimed to support the process in which students are identified with learning disabilities into practical solutions

Tiffany P. Hogan, PhD, is a professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, director of the Speech and Language (SAiL) Literacy Lab and the center for translational research, implementation science, and dissemination for equity in CSD, (cTIDE), and Research Associate at Harvard University. Dr. Hogan has published over 100 papers on the genetic, neurologic, and behavioral links between oral and written language development, with a focus on improving assessment and intervention in schools, especially for neurodiverse children with Developmental Language Disorder, Dyslexia, and/or Speech Sound Disorders. Her advocacy for children with language, speech, and literacy disabilities has led her to co-found a DLD informational website:, host a podcast (), organize an annual conference on implementation science in CSD, and contribute information for articles in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, along with several television and radio appearances