My Services
Evaluations
Upon request, I will administer a full educational battery of tests and determine whether your child meets the criteria to be classified with a learning disabilty, specifically in the area of reading. Should that be the outcome, then I will attend CSE meetings and act as your advocate.
If your child is already classified, or if your child does not warrant a full educational evaluation, I will either supplement your child's previous testing, and/or administer independent tests, so that I can pinpoint the underlying modality deficits (i.e., visual, auditory or kinesthetic weaknesses), outline reasonable goals, and then, should you decide to follow this pathway, tutoring will begin.
The Road to Success
I have been successful remediating countless of students who are now in college, graduate school, or in highly paid professions.
Tutoring for Dyslexics, At-Risk Children, and Other Challenged Readers
- The base of my program is Orton-Gillingham and I integrate whatever is needed from additional multi-sensory programs including The Wilson Reading System, Lindamood-Bell, Slingerland, Nina Traub, Alphabetic Phonics, and Recipe for Reading. Having training in multiple interventional programs, I am in the unique position of truly individualizing a program for every child. The remediation program is multisensory, structured, sequential, phonological, phonetic, and based on scientific research and evidence. Therefore it incorporates the visual (eyes), auditory (ears), and kinesthetic (touch) senses. Your child will learn to look at words more carefully, hear individual sounds in words, link sounds to letters, identify syllables within words, learn syllable division rules to decode multisyllabic words, and apply all that he is learning, to reading and spelling. Your child will also learn strategies and techniques to increase his or her sight-word aquisition.
- In addition to decoding (sounding out words) and encoding (spelling), the program also addresses written expression and comprehension skills. If needed, your child will be taught notetaking skills to enhance written expression, and learn to visualize and verbalize what is read so that comprehension of text will become an automatic process.