Would your child benefit from our services?

   Students who have benefited from our services typically have had difficulties which led their parents to

   be concerned about their children's academic and/or language skills.

 

In developing reading (decoding)/spelling skills there may have been:

   Difficulty in learning or retaining the names of letters;

   Difficulty in learning or retaining the sounds that letters make (sound/symbol correspondences);

   Difficulty in determining the identity, order, or number of sounds in words (phonemic awareness);

   Difficulty in learning to spell words;

   Difficulty in remembering the spellings of words thought to have been learned - either between Thursday

   night practice at home and the Friday spelling test or between the Friday spelling test and the following

   week's use of the words;

   Difficulty in acquiring and maintaining knowledge about how syllables work in English;

   Difficulty in reading at grade level and/or reading slowly;

   Difficulty in recognizing frequently occurring words thought to have been learned (sight-word vocabulary).

In developing reading comprehension and cognitive skills there may have been:

   Aversion to reading age-appropriate material other students find enjoyable;

   Difficulty in understanding the main idea of what is read even if the details are remembered;

   Difficulty in identifying cause-and-effect relationships;

   Difficulty in retelling what has been read and/or in retelling events in sequence;

   Difficulty in following oral or written multi-step directions.

In developing written composition skills there may have been:

   Aversion to writing;

   Difficulty in handwriting;

   Difficulty in spelling;

   Weakness in understanding and using grammar, sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation;

   Difficulty in generating ideas for writing;

   Difficulty in identifying topics and supporting ideas and/or composing topic sentences and

   supporting sentences;

   Difficulty in composing short paragraphs, expanded paragraphs, and essays;

   Weakness in general vocabulary knowledge or in acquisition of precise definitions or words.

In developing mathematics skills there may have been:

   Difficulty with memorization of basic math facts;

   Difficulty following steps/procedures needed to complete calculations;

   Weakness in math word problem-solving skills;

   Difficulty in math vocabulary/language;

   Frequent errors when completing math work.

In developing speech and language skills there may have been:

   Difficulty in learning words;

   Difficulty in speaking intelligibly;

   Difficulty in learning the meanings of words;

   Difficulty in naming common objects, recalling their names, or recalling their correct names; 

   Difficulty in learning sentence structure;

   Difficulty in understanding or participating in conversations which other children do not have difficulty;

   Difficulty in following directions.

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