Our Team

Maryellen Rooney Moreau M.Ed. CCC-SLP, with support of colleagues, family and friends, founded MindWing Concepts, Inc. to further her passion: teaching children to think and communicate.

Maryellen, President of MindWing Concepts, has had a career-long interest in helping children develop the oral language skills necessary to be competent in re-tell stories, reading comprehension, writing and critical thinking. She has her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her Master’s of Education in Communication Disorders from Pennsylvania State University.

She began her professional career in the early 1970s in the Hartford Connecticut Public Schools where she designed and taught the first Language Disabilities Class in the city (one of the few in the nation at that time); thus beginning her research linking oral language development to literacy.

In 1975, Moreau joined the faculty at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts where, over the course of 25 years, she developed and taught courses in Speech and Language Development at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Also during her time at the College, she spear-headed the speech/language pathology and public school outreach components at the college’s Curtis Blake Center for Child Development where she served as a diagnostician. Concurrently, she served as Coordinator of the Curriculum Intervention and Professional Development at the Curtis Blake Day School, a placement for students diagnosed with Dyslexia and language learning disabilities.

In 1991, through years of research and practice, she created the Story Grammar Marker®. Maryellen field-tested the tool at the Curtis Blake Day School and local public schools. She, and colleague Carolyn West, Ph.D. director of the Clinical and Educational Services at the Curtis Blake Center for Child Development, presented this “new” tool and research-based methodology to a local educational consortium. The response to the Story Grammar Marker® was very positive. The Blake Center then invited Holly Fidrych, M.S. CCC-SLP to join the teaching staff at the Curtis Blake Day School to collaborate with Maryellen and the teachers at the school to continue to implement and field-test the Story Grammar Marker®. Maryellen applied for and was awarded a patent on the SGM® in 1994.

MindWing Concepts was incorporated in 1994 and began as a cottage industry based in the basement of the home Maryellen shared with her husband and three children. In 2000, MindWing Concepts was accepted as one of the first incubator tenants at the Springfield Business Incubator (SBI) for Entrepreneurs at the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in Springfield, MA. After years of hard work and brilliant assistance from staff at the incubator as well as from colleagues across the country, MindWing “graduated” from the SBI and moved into a brand new office at 1 Federal Street 103-1 – part of STCC’s Technology Park.

MindWing has provided professional development to thousands of education professionals throughout the United States and Canada. MindWing Concepts’ materials are now in the hands of almost half-a-million children worldwide assisting them with oral and written expression, critical thinking, comprehension and social-emotional growth. MindWing’s goal is to help children become successful in SCHOOL and in LIFE.

MindWing Concepts, Inc 1 Federal Street #103-1 Springfield, MA 01105

Voice: 413.734.7476

Fax: 413.734.0075

Toll Free: 888.228.9746

Web: www.mindwingconcepts.com

Contact: Sheila MOreau - smmoreau@mindwingconcepts.com 617.839.2217

Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed. CCC-SLP, President and Founder, EMAIL: mrmoreau@mindwingconcepts.com

Sheila Moreau, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Professional Development Coordinator EMAIL: smmoreau@mindwingconcepts.com

Elizabeth R. Luczynski, Administrative Assistant and Fulfillment, EMAIL: erluczynski@mindwingconcepts.com

Gerald R. Moreau, Accounting, EMAIL: grmoreau@mindwingconcepts.com

William Noss, Graphic Designer

Consultants, Authors and Contributors:

Gwynne McElhinney, M.S., CCC-SLP
David Townsend
Lawrence Lloyd
Sheila Rooney Zagula, M.Ed.
Linda Lafontaine, CCC-SLP
Holly Fidrych, CCC-SLP
Judy K. Montgomery, CCC-SLP
Brian S. Welch