Experience Summary
Reading intervention at Cherubino Health Center is effective and fun
Every lesson is tailored specifically for each of my students to be exactly what he or she needs to succeed. Our individualized lessons are explicit, sequential, cognitive, cumulative, phonics-based, multisensory and emotionally sound. Each lesson is paced to hold the student's interest, reinforce previous skills, introduce new skills in explicit, small steps, build on strengths, and is completely positive. Reading is taught with a minimum of the “exceptions to the rules” that plague so many struggling readers. Students learn that English makes a lot more sense than most people know because it is based on predictable syllabic, spelling, Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Latin patterns. Mastery of reading is achieved because we stay with each new concept until it is assimilated accurately, fluently and permanently as we continually incorporate previously learned concepts into new learning.
Teaching Style
Wilson Reading, Orton-Gillingham and Brain Gym®
The great advantage of individualized reading tutoring is that my students have my undivided attention, expertise and the promise that I am diligent in using and seeking the exact interventions that they need to learn with confidence and a sense of accomplishment.
Wilson Reading is a system of reading tutoring, based on Orton-Gillingham and years of research and experience, that organizes the English language by its six syllable types and spelling patterns. It is recommended for students from grades two through adult who need a higher level of reading intervention than is possible in a regular classroom setting.
Orton-Gillingham is an approach to reading acquisition that is well researched and takes the whole child into consideration. Originally taught to doctors, teachers and therapists at Columbia University and at Mass General Hospital, it is based on the work of Dr. Samuel Orton (who first discovered and studied dyslexia) and Anna Gillingham. Together, they researched and formulated the most effective reading remediation techniques based on the mechanisms involved in the language-learning processes in individuals.
Brain Gym®
Brain Gym movements help restore proprioception, hand-eye coordination, eye teaming and proper stress responses resulting in a more relaxed, open and efficient ability to learn. Problems with reading are not a result of a lack of trying! Struggling to read can be a daily, tormenting ordeal of repeated trying and failing. The integrative movements of Brain Gym allow students ease of access to thinking, imagining, reading and writing and reduce the tension and discouragement that impedes learning.
A truly child-centered, holistic combination of approaches
The beauty of combining Brain Gym movements with reading intervention is that students gain access to their inborn ability to learn. The movements facilitate ease of learning and eliminate a great deal of the stress of trying as opposed to allowing. The combination of multisensory, logical, sequential reading tutoring and the sensory-motor repatterning of Brain Gym empowers students from their cores, to their muscles, to their sensory systems to be able to finally "let the words in."
Other Comments
Let's work together to banish reading dread and enjoy the world of words!
We absorb so much of our world and communicate with our world largely through reading. Reading does not have to be an ordeal! My students have fun not only while learning how to read - or while improving their reading - but also as they learn how to navigate our "information age" in ways that best suit them.