Our Students are bright, curious thinkers of average to superior intelligence with dyslexia, who thrive in small, personalized learning groups. They are in 2nd-6th grade and they do best when multiple teaching modalities are employed (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.)
Our students typically possess several of these learning strengths:
- Strong verbal abilities and vivid imaginations.
- Gifted in music, visual or performing arts, and /or athletics
- High emotional intelligence, sensitive, empathetic, good people skills
- Creative, global thinkers, curious, motivated learners
- Gifted in mechanical abilities and 3-D visual-spatial skills
Our students typically display a cluster of these challenges of dyslexia:
- Poor reading fluency and comprehension
- Poor Spelling
- Dysgraphia (slow, oddly-spaced, non-automatic handwriting that is difficult to read)
- Speaking errors, trouble with word precision
- Sequencing problems (reversals, inversions, transpositions: of thoughts, numbers, words, letters)
- Difficulty memorizing math facts (like times tables)
Our students often contend with some of these additional challenges:
- Anxiety and low self-esteem, low self-confidence, often resulting from not being understood in their prior classrooms
- AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Dyscalculia, a calculation-based learning disorder
- Overt, or passive, dread of school and homework
- Very disorganized bedroom, workspace, backpack
- Poor executive functioning (planning, organization of tasks, time management)