staff and advisors

Austin Bloomberg is helping us improve our site material and market our products. He has a business degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro .

Galen Brandt writes, sings, and produces our safety songs. She is president of Piglet Opera Music Productions and has received numerous music awards including a French Emmy for music composition, the Parent's Choice Award, and International and National Gold Certification. She is a graduate of Yale.

James Carter Cathcart is the male voice for our animated songs and CDs. You may recognize his voice as several characters from the Pokeman TV and movie series.

Claire Coles, PhD serves as advisor for design and testing of our safety games for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder. She is Director of Psychological Services at Marcus Institute and Director of Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Bruce Damer is CEO of DigitalSpace, a 3D design and development studio that has produced specialized virtual environments and is part of our grant to teach social skills to adolescents with high functioning autism and Asperger’s.

Walter Dubiansky is the computer programmer who designs and writes the software for our site games and products and maintains our web site. He received his training in the North Carolina State University Computer Science Department.

Kathy Gerard is teaching specialist who helps design our learning material.

Lee Marcus, PhD serves as an advisor for our autism material and grants. He is Clinical Director of the Chapel Hill TEACCH Center .

Sandra McEwen is our in-house artist. She does our web site content and art and animations for our songs and games. She has a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Elif Meckler, PhD is advising on our new grant to develop autism diagnostic tools for psychology graduate students in training.

Gary Mesibov, PhD guides or autism research and is Director of Division TEACCH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School .

Molly Millians ,M.A., M.Ed. Special educator for the Fetal Alcohol Clinic at the Marcus Institute in Atlanta, GA. Currently, she is completing a D.Ed at the University of South Africa focusing on Inclusion Education.

Lori Pankratz, MS, CCC-SLP Speech Language Pathologist developed and recorded our Sounds Song-A-Long section.

Ann Schulte, PhD is involved in our new autism diagnostic grant.  She is a professor at North Carolina State University .

Lindsey Schumacher is a special needs teacher who is coordinating our diagnostic video grant design and testing. She is in graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill.

Donna Stanger is creating, with a team of programmers and artists, our new facial expressions game, which will be available in 2008. She was formally CEO of Edmark and is responsible for over 100 award winning games including the Millie and Bailey House series.

Dorothy Strickland, PhD is President of Virtual Reality Aids, Inc., the company that supports the Do2Learn web site. She holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from North Carolina State University .

Monique Velasquez does our video work for our games and grants. She is president of Velasques Media in Durham , NC .

and many others…
who help us by sharing their suggestions and talents. These include the artists for our picture cards, children’s chorus for our learning songs, subjects for out trials, and the users who keep us informed on what they could use and share their ideas.