Barbara Priddy Guyer is the founder and Director Emeritus of the H.E.L.P. Program (Higher Education for Learning Problems) at Marshall University in West Virginia. She established the program in 1981 as a support for undergraduate students with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and other learning disabilities. She also founded the Medical H.E.L.P. Program in 1986 for medical students and physicians needing remedial reading support.Barbara has taught grades two through six, remedial reading, learning disability classes and reading to inmates in a women's prison. She has also served as a supervisor of special education, a principal of two learning disability centers, and–since 1975–coordinator of the learning disabilities graduate program at Marshall University.She is a member of the National Learning Disabilities Association, Phi Delta Kappa, The Orton Dyslexia Society, American Association of University Professors, and the Honorary Board of Directors of the West Virginia Learning Disabilities Association. She has won numerous awards and honors for her teaching and leadership. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Annals of Dyslexia, Journal of Learning Disabilities, New England Journal of Medicine, and Academic Therapy.Barbara grew up in Richmond, VA, where she attended the public schools. She later attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she developed a great love of teaching. She earned a Master's degrees in administration and learning disabilities from The Ohio State University and West Virginia University, and a doctorate in education from University of Virginia.Barbara and her husband, Dr. Kenneth Guyer have two daughters, Greta and Jennifer. Through them, she has gained an understanding of learning problems, dyslexia and attention deficit disorder from a parent's perspective.