About Schultz's Tutoring and Playgroups

Andrea graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with an endorsement in special education. Her 1st year of teaching was in the Indianapolis public school system with 5th and 6th grade learning disabled students. She then moved to Trenton NJ. I taught junior/ high school moderately mentally handicap children. Andrea’s husband was again transferred back to Indianapolis where Andrea worked in 1st grade for almost 2 years. After that point she had 2 beautiful children and decided to stay home with them for a while. When her daughters were 2 and 3, her husband was transferred to Grenoble France where she worked with French children to teach them English. She also taught native English speaking children to read and write English. After returning to the USA she returned to being a stay at home mom. A few years later she worked at Broad Horizons which was a Montessori school for ASD students. The students ranged in age from 2-14 years. She worked there for 5 years. When the school closed she worked at an ABA center in the Indianapolis area for 18 months. After 18 months she moved on to doing in home therapy with children with ASD. A year and a half later, her husband retired and they decided to move to his family farm located in Billings Missouri. Andrea then found a job with an autism center in Springfield where she worked for almost 2 years. Once retiring from there she started working at Enrichment Alternatives. She has been writing a weekly “Tip” for her website for over a year.  Andrea and Mark’s daughters have graduated from college. Their daughter Amber has a degree in fashion design and their daughter Anne has a master in special education and is a BCBA.

I contributed a chapter in this book   Autism  What Schools Are Missing  Voices for a New Path