Meet The Team

Deborah Brown

Deborah founded Hill Country Dyslexia Services in 2019. She is dedicated to providing an individualized, evidence-based curriculum for her students so that they are equipped with the knowledge and tools to not only be successful in school, but in life as well.

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Marilyn Elliott

Marilyn has taught students with dyslexia throughout her career and sought out specialized dyslexia training in 2005 through the Scottish Rite Learning Center of Austin, earning the title Certified Academic Language Therapist.

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Abbey Niemann

Abbey is a former elementary educator with almost 20 years of classroom experience in Early Education. She is passionate about the early years of school and believes providing a solid foundation is the key to success.

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Annie Koerner-Schultz

Annie has worked in public education in Texas and Arizona for 30 plus years. With a Bachelor of Art degree in Psychology for the University of Arizona, and a Master of Education from Texas State University, she stumbled upon the realization that people who struggle with math can help others who struggle with math.

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Marcia Harlan

Marcia has close to forty years in the field of educating young students. Marcia's strategy teaches children to “break the code” of the complex English language, giving them the love of a variety of different language forms.

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Rosalba Cortez-Concha

Rosalba Cortez-Concha is a lifelong educator with a wide range of experience in bilingual education, reading intervention and dyslexia. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education from New Mexico State University and a Masters of Arts in Public History from Texas State University.

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Gwen Zucker

Gwen has 14 years tutoring experience in Math, Science and English composition to students from 5th to 12th grades. She followed this with a 9-year teaching career as a career and technical education and later science teacher in Austin ISD middle and high schools.

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