Author: Diana T. Sylvander

Diana T. Sylvander, M.A., is an internationally certified Special Education teacher, and a certified Baby Signs® instructor. Diana received her undergraduate degree in Special Education from Babesh-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2001. She has a Masters Degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the same university since 2017. Her teaching journey began in 1997, at Transylvania College, a private school in Eastern Europe. She climbed the professional ladder from a paraprofessional position, to becoming certified as a Kindergarten teacher, a Speech Pathologist, and a principal. In the United States, she taught both in public and private schools, as a regular and special education teacher, in South Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana, and Colorado. She also taught Baby Signs ® and “edutainment” classes for children 0-5 years old at “Lil’Me” Clubhouse, her own “Mommy and Me” business, for several years while her military family was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, Washington, DC, and Dayton, OH. Diana further dedicated her career to serving the military community as an employee of the Department of Defense Schools in Germany, where she activated as an elementary special education teacher for two years.