Suzanne Beaumont is a program supervisor at Saint Vincent’s Learning Lab in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Michigan State University, a master’s degree in developmental psychology, and a doctorate in lifespan developmental psychology from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in education from Temple University. She has taught an early childhood education program in children’s homes and in a family daycare home. She developed and taught a curriculum, including social skills and moral decision-making, in an after school program for inner-city middle-school youth. She served as a program coordinator and teacher in an adult literacy program helping inner-city adults receive basic education and GED preparation as well as necessary life skills. She developed a computer/GED/job-readiness program in which she taught communication, mathematics, and job readiness skills to assist unemployed and welfare-dependent individuals to obtain employment. Beaumont has taught college courses in the following subject areas: Introductory Psychology, Lifespan Developmental Psychology, Daycare, Exceptional Children, Social Psychology, Personality Theory and Dynamics, Human Sexuality, Interpersonal Communication, Psychology of Women, Comparative Psychology, and Learning Psychology. She spent 10 years serving as a psychotherapist in an inner-city clinic devoted primarily to serving children and adults on public assistance.
Beaumont says, “Not only has Reading Horizons proved successful across the range of reading levels, it also is effective with students whose reading difficulties stem from a variety of sources: lack of experience due to inadequate elementary education, intellectual deficits, and learning disabilities. The experience of making sense of language through systematically proving words (applying the phonetic rules) brings a sense of excitement and hope which encourages the sustained effort needed to be successful.”
