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  • Enrollment Periods:

    There are two enrollment periods each year– Regular School Year and Summer. 

    Enrollment is offered based on the requested number of sessions per week:

    • Two (2) sessions per week: $80/session; $640/month 

    • Three (3) sessions per week: $75/session; $900/month

    • Four (4) sessions per week: $70/session; $1,120/month

    Enrollment includes:

    • 55 minute Sessions with an A/OGA

    • Reassessments every 4 months

    • Lesson Notes after each session

    • Guided Practice Work

    • Meetings with Specialist and Conferences when needed/requested

    • Meetings with students’ school is an additional expense.

      Note:

    • ALL students must begin with an initial assessment. The cost for this assessment is $150/student. It includes a conference with the tutor and is necessary to begin sessions.

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  • Dyslexia, at its core, is a phonological processing problem. It affects 1 in 5 students. It is neurobiological in origin and is treated with simultaneous- multisensory academic intervention. This method of intervention trains the brain in the orthographic mapping that needs to happen for successful reading. Essentially, the Dyslexic brain has a disconnect between the letter on the page and the sound that letter represents. While the dyslexic reader will struggle with letter-sound correspondence, they will have incredible talent and productivity in other ways. Their cognitive ability does not match the deficit in their phonological processing.

  • Reading and writing are complex tasks. They require many parts of the brain to communicate effectively as well as strong executive functioning skills. When all of those pieces are in place, a person understands and remembers what they read. 

    Dyslexia is when the communication in the brain is not functioning properly. Some learners need a specific method of learning reading and writing. The Orton-Gillingham Method has been used to treat dyslexia for over 100 years; with world-renowned success.

  • In pre-readers (age 4-6)

    • Family history of dyslexia or suspected learning difficulties with reading

    • Oral language might develop later than peers

    • Oral language may be difficult to understand

    • Oral language word recall might be difficult

    • Child may have difficulty with rhyming words

    • Often has difficulty separating sounds in words and blending sounds to make words

    In Kindergarten to 4th Grade

    • May have a slower time learning connections between letters and sounds

    • Has difficulty with decoding words, even in isolation

    • Has difficulty with spelling phonetically, as in letters that could make the sounds necessary for the word in question.

    • Consistently disfluent in reading and makes the same spelling errors

    • Difficulty identifying the letters b and d and the difference between them

    • May rely on guessing and context, makes errors because of guessing or reading the first few letters

    In 5th- 8th Grade

    • Typically reading below grade level

    • Slow to learn prefixes, suffixes, and roots as well as continuing to struggle with other patterns previously learned

    • May avoid reading aloud

    • May avoid writing

    In High School- College

    • Reads very slowly and inaccurately

    • Avoids reading and writing tasks

    • Has difficulty summarizing and outlining

    • Struggles to answer longer test questions or write essays

    • Difficulty learning  foreign language

    • May have a low storage bank of vocabulary

    • May misread important pieces of information

    Adults

    • Hides their reading problems

    • Poor spelling, relies on others to correct spelling

    • Avoids writing

    • Relies on memory, may have excellent memory skills

    • Often talented in spatial recognition

    • May have jobs that are “below” their intellectual ability

    Source: 

    Modified from: https://www.thereadingcenter.org/signs-of-ld

  • Dyslexia does run in families. It is genetic and inherited, often not formally diagnosed. But the good news is that people with dyslexia can still learn how to read and write successfully! It is important to note that the younger a child is when going through tutoring, the more successful the results in a faster timeline. Our professional work has been with MANY older students and they also see excellent results with tutoring, using the Orton-Gillingham method.