ABOUT

The LearningWorks for Kids Team

Randy Kulman
Randy Kulman, Ph.D. is a child clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience working with children and families. He divides his time between his clinical practice, conducting clinical, neuropsychological, and educational evaluations with children, and developing the LearningWorks for Kids project. He is the founder of LearningWorks for Kids, the father of three wonderful boys, and is continually intrigued by the inventive methods by which children learn, play, and solve problems.

 

Adam Slater
Adam Slater is an aspiring cartoonist and Art History student at Rhode Island College. He has varied experience in both cartooning, caricaturing and animation.

Deborah Swauger
Deborah Swauger has worked for Dr. Kulman at South County Child and Family Consultants and LearningWorks for Kids since 1997 in the Administrative Department. She has worked on organizing and editing some of the LearningWorks for Kids materials. Deborah especially enjoys her contact with the children and families who are a part of the SCCFC practice and the LearningWorks for Kids program.

Gary Stoner
Gary Stoner, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, and Director of the School Psychology Program at the University of Rhode Island. He is a consultant to Learning Works for Kids. He is known for his professional work in the areas of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, interventions for achievement and behavior problems, and scientist-practitioner approaches to professional school psychology. He is the co-editor of the book Interventions for Achievement and Behavior Problems (1991, National Association of School Psychologists; and 2nd Edition 2002); and co-author of the book ADHD in the Schools: Assessment and Intervention Strategies (1994, Guilford; and 2nd Edition 2003). Dr. Stoner is Past-President of Division 16 of the American Psychological Association (APA), and Chair of the APA Inter-Divisional Coalition on Psychology in Schools and Education. His current professional interests are focused on the study and promotion of early school success with children at-risk for learning and behavior problems, as well as on methods of effective school-based prevention and intervention for such problems. Dr. Stoner served on the school psychology faculty of both the University of Oregon (1987-1996) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1996-2007), prior to moving the University of Rhode Island in 2007.

Jamie Hanson
Jamie Hanson, team leader for the Playbook/Technology Department, has worked for LearningWorks for Kids since 2006. A recent graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Jamie has enjoyed a reputation as “the female gamer” since she was a small child. She sees LearningWorks for Kids as an excellent opportunity to integrate her life-long personal hobbies with her professional life.  She loves to work with children, tinker with computers, and of course play games.

Joshua Le Goff
Joshua Le Goff is and aspiring cartoonist and a student enrolled in Rhode Island School of Design's Comic and Sequential Art program. He has varied experience in cartooning, illustration, animation and logo design/lettering.

Kiersten Marek
Kiersten Marek is a licensed clinical social worker practicing out of South County Child and Family Consultants, with more than a decade of experience working with children and families.  Kiersten serves on the board of the Rhode Island Center for Law and Public Policy and the Wellness Committee for the Cranston Public Schools.  She is the founding editor of Kmareka.com, a blog community discussing a wide variety of social and cultural issues.

Pat Mullaney
Pat Mullaney, writing/editing consultant, devotes a Thoreau-like insistence on simplicity to LWK’s intention to be of service to as universal an audience as possible. Often connecting the unexpected dots, she refers to the beach as her office, the library as her second home; but her background in Education and genuine love of learning contribute the natural aptitude for the projects she specializes in. These include collaborations with faculty on curriculum designs and conference materials; review of content for author proposals and instructional websites; and support for student ventures from creative writing to master’s theses. write2pat@verizon.net

Philip Bishop
Philip Bishop is a freelance writer and web developer. Bishop’s writing has appeared in USA Today, Smart Computing, Yahoo Internet Life and numerous other publications. For five years he was a contributing editor with FamilyPC Magazine and for one year he was an editorial consultant to Apple, Inc. In addition to LearningWorks for Kids, Bishop has created websites and provided web services for Splendor of Florence, Crossroads Rhode Island, Earth Care Farm and a variety of other individuals and organizations. He performs his work through his company Seadog Studio.

Suellen Adams
Suellen Adams, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include a variety of digital media, particularly video games and the ways in which information is found and used in these contexts.  She received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, and her dissertation was entitled Information Behavior and Meaning-Making in Virtual Play Spaces: A Case Study of City of Heroes. Recently she has advocated for the inclusion of video gaming in public libraries, and has written on the topic of the role of new literacies (such as gaming and social networking) in education and information literacy.