Dyslexia Tutor

Living with dyslexia—whether in your own brain, or in the brain of someone close to you (often both)—can seem like a life sentence to the prison of reading stuff that makes little sense, and the hard labor of attempting to write words that have no relationship to what’s happening in the real world.

Spelling exists only to prove that most of the world is smart and those who don’t “get it” are stupid.

Someone else’s fifteen minutes of nightly homework turns into hours of frustration, arguing, humiliation, and anger that affects the whole family. Night after night. Months turn into years with no signs of him “growing out of it” or her developing into “the potential evident in her spoken vocabulary."

So what is dyslexia?

The human brain evolved over millions of years to express and understand communication via spoken language—individual sounds (phonemes) uttered in sequence over time. The speaker communicates thoughts and ideas vocally and the listener receives the message through auditory senses, then processes the meaning in the brain. Written communication—using visual symbols arranged sequentially on a blank surface—is a much more recent human invention, which is often fallible. READ ON...

I have been tutoring students at the Children’s Dyslexia Centers of Cincinnati since 2008 and began supervising new scholar/tutors for the Dyslexia Center in 2009.

I opened my private tutoring practice in 2009. I continue to expand my knowledge of how to best teach students with dyslexia via professional conferences, workshops, and online seminars, as well as from each encounter with the unique set of deficits, skills, and gifts each student brings to the tutoring relationship.

My clients have ranged in age from kindergarteners through seniors in high school. READ ON...

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