She earned her MEd at the University of Washington, USA and her PhD at the University of Georgia, USA. She is a credentialled school psychologist and a licensed psychologist. As a Fulbright Scholar in Medellin, Colombia, Dr. Clinton researched relationships between language structure and reading acquisition processes. Dr. Clinton has worked with second language learners from regions of the world, including Central and South America as well as the United States and has published and presented this work nationally and internationally.