Joan A. Mele-McCarthy, D.A.
Joan A. Mele-McCarthy, D.A., Executive Director, the Summit School, 664 East
Central Avenue, Edgewater, Maryland 21037.
Joan Mele-McCarthy
is the executive director of the Summit School, a school
designed for students who have dyslexia and other learning differences. Prior
to this position, she served as a special assistant to the assistant secretary for
special education/rehabilitation services in the U.S. Department of Education
and worked on policy issues related to the connections between special education
and general education and between English Learners and disabilities. She also has served on university faculties in departments of communication sciences
and disorders, owned and directed a private practice that provided direct
intervention and school consultation, and worked in public schools. Her work
is focused on language-based
learning differences and special education policy.