Build Your Vocabulary Skills! A Quick and Easy Method - John LaCarna 2017

About the author

John LaCarna holds a Master of Social Work degree, and a BA in psychology with a minor in journalism, both from Louisiana State University, and is licensed as a social worker in the State.

His varied experience in the behavioral sciences includes work for the Department of Education of Nicholls State University at Thibodeaux, La., where he served as a member of a team that evaluated primary and secondary schoolchildren and made recommendations for placement in special classes for the talented and gifted, or for those with learning disabilities or mental handicaps.

His wife, Gustavia LaCarna, RN, and he operated their business, LaCarna Health Care Consultants, Inc. in Baton Rouge, for many years, primarily working with group homes for the developmentally disabled.

LaCarna has developed numerous research and demonstration grants in various areas of the behavioral sciences, and has had professional articles published. A member of Mensa, he has published various fictional and non-fictional pieces in newspapers and magazines through the years.

He has been interested in mnemonics throughout his career. As a psychology student at LSU in the 1960’s, he designed and conducted a study of the effects of a linking technique on retention, and found significant positive results. This is basically the technique utilized in Build Your Vocabulary Skills!