Executive Director, Rawson-Saunders School in Austin, Texas.

M.A. – Speech Pathology, Ohio University.
Ph.D. – Language and Literacy, University of Texas at Austin.

Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Pathology, licensed by the Texas State Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology.
Certified Academic Language Therapist and Qualified Instructor, ALTA.
Master Instructor in Basic Language Skills (Alphabetic Phonics) through Neuhaus Education Center in Houston.

Pat Sekel is a Certified Academic Language Therapist and Qualified Instructor, special educator, and a well known and respected expert on dyslexia, its related disorders, reading disabilities, reading development and practical modifications/accommodations in the classroom.  She specializes in working with educators and parents to develop the best learning environment possible for learning different children nationwide.  She has over thirty years of elementary and secondary education experience.

Originally from Ohio, Dr. Sekel served as a public school and private practice speech pathologist for twelve years before becoming a special educator in Texas schools.  She was Austin ISD’s first Dyslexia Coordinator and later the first Director for Section 504 and Dyslexia Services for the Round Rock ISD.  She was the first Director for the Scottish Rite Learning Center of Austin, where she established Central Texas’s first nationally accredited teacher training center through the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA) and the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC).  Currently, as the Executive Director of the Rawson-Saunders School for Dyslexics, Dr. Sekel oversees a full curricular school for professionally diagnosed dyslexics in first through eighth grades, as well as an evaluation and resource center for parents and educators.  She is twice past President of the Austin Branch of The International Dyslexia Association.  Pat has served on numerous Texas Education Agency and Governor’s literacy committees.