A question I sometimes get when I am first contacted by parents of struggling readers is “do you offer in-person tutoring?” I say, “Yes I do”, but let’s first do the FREE assessment online and go from there. IF YOUR CHILD IS Struggling with Reading We can help Why do the assessment online? There are…
Whole language and phonics: which is better? The different paths that my two daughters took, through their different schooling experiences (because of where I worked as a teacher) to learn to read, taught me that: 40% of children will learn to read after a year of instruction in first grade no matter the method and…
No and why you should not worry It’s normal to worry when your six-year-old child can’t read going into first grade. Especially if you are comparing him or her to the children of people you know. There is a lot of pressure from society, friends, parents, your environment, to make you think that your child…
Dyslexia is a loaded word Only psychologists are allowed to say that someone has dyslexia. And, according to Sally Shaywitz M.D., because of limited resources and other issues, they only diagnose 4% of the student population with dyslexia even though 1 in 5 children show signs of dyslexia.1 That means 16% of struggling readers are…