MindWing Concepts provides highly interactive professional development workshops and multisensory materials for public school districts, organizations, private schools, early childhood settings and parents. Our goal is to give every child- regardless of age, ability or culture – the skills to think, communicate & learn effectively in order to achieve academic and social success. Twent-five years ago this year, speech-language pathologist, Maryellen Rooney Moreau, M.Ed. CCC-SLP created the Story Grammar Marker to help a 4th grade student with dyslexia to tell and write a story. Over the past 25 years, she has created more than 30 tools and materials and written 15 publications about the implementation of this approach for helping children with oral language development, writing, critical thinking, reading and listening comprehension and problem solving. Maryellen then founded MindWing Concepts, Inc to further her passion: giving children the skills to be successful in school and in life. Our methodology is rooted in language development, specifically the discourse level of language to include conversation, narration (stories) and exposition (information text). Problems at the discourse level are evident when students experience difficulties using language to think, communicate and learn. Our methodology effectively targets language, thinking and social-emotional skills – simultaneously! Educators and parents implement our methodology often with the goal of assisting children with the fundamental areas of literacy: speaking, writing and comprehension. However, in addition to academic achievement, they realize that the social impact of MindWing’s methodology is extraordinary.