Sophia Homeschool

Margaret is the founder and director at Secret Garden Educational Pathways, where she provides online, homeschool and Christian friendly special education therapy/remediation. She started her journey by graduating with a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College. She trained and worked at Lindamood Bell Learning Processes during her summers between college. She pursued further specialized training and education with Equipping Minds and is a certified instructor of the Equipping Minds therapy program. To complete her education so she could help more students, she pursued and received a M.S. in Special Education. Margaret works constantly to provide the best help possible. She is a kind and understanding teacher, while at the same time encouraging high standards, and loves to have fun with and see her students succeed.

Certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Elisabeth has been practicing as a speech-language pathologist for over 27 years. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Towson State University and her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Loyola College in Maryland. Elisabeth has worked in a variety of clinical settings prior to starting her own practice, including inpatient and outpatient hospital setting, speech and hearing clinic, home health, and skilled and assisted nursing facilities. She has held many different managerial positions including Regional Clinical Specialist, Rehabilitation Director, Clinical Coordinator and Program Manager of several area outpatient clinics where she managed a professional staff of physical, occupational and speech therapists. Elisabeth currently provides speech, language and literacy assessments and treatment through her private practice. She uses her many years of experience, along with a myriad of assessment tools, and collaboration with other professionals to provide a holistic, integrated approach to assessment and treatment, which allows for the most expeditious and successful outcomes for her clients.

Clare McCullough is an Occupational Therapist who learned how to help children with Sensory Processing Disorder from her firsthand experience growing up a "sensory kid." Blessed to be a part of a big family with parents who intuitively parented with intention for her needs, Clare had wonderfully diverse opportunities to develop her mind and soul, giving her a very holistic perspective in working with children. Clare graduated from Hope College in 2011 with a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and Psychology and then went on to complete her Masters in Occupational Therapy from Western Michigan University, graduating in December 2013. She has worked for six years in an outpatient pediatric clinic and public schools in the Chicago suburbs after she returned to Northwest Indiana to be with her family. When she is not learning from and with children and their families, Clare enjoys spending time with her family, reading, being in nature and FaceTiming with her fiance who lives in Chile. Since Coronavirus quarantines began, Clare has begun undertaking a personal goal of creating a website where she will provide reviews of research articles on topics within pediatric Occupational Therapy.