Marilyn Landis bio
Marilyn Landis is the founder and president of HEARSAY, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in programs for hearing impaired and special needs children in both contained and inclusion situations. During her 30-year teaching career, she has been nationally and internationally recognized as a master teacher and an inspiring mentor. An innovative speaker, Marilyn presents both national and international workshops on language arts, music and inclusion issues.

Marilyn has written a language course of study for hearing impaired children and several integrated and literature study guides. She developed a music curriculum that has been used as a model for such programs around the country. Her music program was featured at international workshops in Denmark, New York, and Utah as an outstanding example of music education for handicapped children. She has taught teacher-training workshops at Kent State and Cleveland State Universities. She has made demonstration teaching tapes to be used in college classes and public service messages for television and radio.

Marilyn was awarded first runner-up for the 1978 Alexander Graham Bell National Teacher of the Year, was Ohio Teacher of the Year runner-up in 1986, and is a Martha Holden Jennings scholar. As the 1988 winner of the Katherine W. Jackson Award, she was recognized as an outstanding teacher of reading and language arts. She received both the Cleveland Plain Dealer Crystal Apple Award and the WJW-TV Thank-A-Teacher Award.

Marilyn received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in both elementary education and psychology. She received her MA in deaf education from Michigan State University and did her postgraduate work in reading, learning disabilities and music therapy. Marilyn is an Orff Specialist and had training in both the Guberini and Ling methods of speech for hearing impaired children.

“Landis is a teacher with innovative and creative ideas whose students surpass the usual limits of hearing-impaired children.”
—USA Today