Professional Staff

Dorinda (Dory) Luzardo began her career as an educator and continued to teach in Miami-Dade County Public Schools for over 20 years with students ranging in age from 3 year old pre-schoolers and elementary advanced learners in an International Baccalaureate Magnet Program through adult educational professionals enrolled in university programs.  Dory earned her first Masters Degree with honors in Gifted Education with additional certification in Teaching English as a Second Language from Nova University, and her second Masters Degree with honors in Library Information Sciences from the University of South Florida. Through years of training and experience,Dory learned to apply varying schools of thoughts, curricula and international methodologies to ensure that each student received individualized programming so as to gain necessary inner motivation and achieve the highest possible goals.

Autism became a life changing experience in Dory's life when one of her children was diagnosed at an early age, and this then became the catalyst for an intensive, nation-wide search for valid, research-based treatment and educational options. Dory learned from and trained with national experts for all possible bio-medical, clinical, and academic interventions that would lead to her child's extraordinary climb out of the silent world of Autism and into the active world of a typically developing child, functioning well within and beyond expected developmental levels, and participating in Gifted Education programs. Her child had begun to progress, but the need for an integrated, comprehensive, individualized and peer supported program setting soon became clearly evident. It was out of these needs that Angels Reach Foundation was created, bringing together state of the art clinical interventions for special needs children and advanced educational programming for regular and gifted learners. 

Dory continues to support the development of inclusive educational programming locally and internationally, serving as a consultant, speaker and trainer along with her amazing team from Angels Reach Foundation & Academy.

Dr Julianne Freiwald, CCC/SLP has been practicing for 34 years. She graduated with honors from the University of Miami with a major in speech and hearing sciences, and a minor in psychology. She then entered the school of education where she took the classes necessary for a Florida Teaching Certificate K-12. After working with children and adolescents in the Broward County Schools for 5 years, she then enrolled in the Master of Speech-Language Pathology program at Nova Southeastern University. Following graduation, she had the honor of working in a private practice where she treated children and adults with developmental disabilities. Following that, she attended a special course at Harvard University Medical School, titled the Neurology of Behavior. Dr. Freiwald was the only speech-language pathologist to attend that particular course at that time. The remaining participants were neurologists, neuropsychologists and psychiatrists. Neuroscience became a targeted passion of hers. She went on to work at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. This program was an experimental transdisciplinary approach under the direction of a well-respected neuropsychologist, Dr Alcuin Johnson. Children were brought into the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Unit from all over the world in various stages of coma. Results were amazingly and scientifically positive.
Following this position, Dr Julianne Freiwald, CCC/SLP worked as an independent contractor, a lecturer for Marion Publications and opened up a private practice in Miami, Florida. She then received her Doctor of Speech-Language Pathology at Nova Sourtheastern University. She provided treatment for individuals of all ages with various disabilities. She also was a state vendor for the Office of Disability as well as an expert witness in the Dade and Broward county court system.