Shelly M. Patel
Shelly M. Patel is a new children's book author. A clinical scientist and director of local kids Sunday school based out of Virginia, Shelly loves to engage children in thinking deeper and being more aware of their surroundings. She emphasizes on teaching children how to face life's many adversities while maintaining a positive attitude.
Jake has Dyslexia highlights her sons' personal journey with the challenges it accompanies in academia along with millions just like him. Mother of three kids, her focus has always been to ensure her children have the best attitude, love and compassion towards life and others. The mantra of motherhood is teaching kids to a be good and kind human being. Currently, she has completed writing her second book.
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The television or movie screen is the closest most people will ever come to witnessing the forensic world. But Jennifer was raised in it. As the daughter of a small town medical examiner whose office was in their home. There were body parts in the fridge. She investigated her first fatality, an airplane crash, when she was 8 years old. Picking up pieces of skull with her father who simply saw it as an anatomy lesson. The first of many coroner lessons she experienced over two decades.
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