Lindsay M Rodriguez, M.Ed., C.E.D., has been associated with Sunshine Cottage School since 1995. She first came from Mexico via England and Venezuela as a mother looking for an oral education for her son who is profoundly deaf and uses a cochlear implant. She has been a Parent-Infant Advisor at Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children in San Antonio since 2000.
She is bilingual (English/Spanish) and previously worked for 16 years as an ESL teacher and textbook author/editor for Macmillan Publishers in Mexico City. Lindsay has also been trained as a Parent Advocacy Training Facilitator for the A.G.Bell Association and has given presentations on Advocacy internationally and nationally. Lindsay is a co-author of The Guide to Listening and Spoken Language: a parent-friendly, convenient checklist of information and strategies for learning to listen and talk.
Lindsay’s mission is to coach parents to advocate for their child so that their child, in turn, might advocate for him/herself.