Jean A.
- Rockport, TX 78382 ( 29.5 mi )
- Expert ADD/ADHD Tutor
- Female
- Member since: 01/2013
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Tutoring Rate: $25 /hr
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On-line
In-Home
- Also Tutors: Special Education, Hearing Impaired, Dyslexia
ADD/ADHD is one of my top subjects! I help identify ADD/ADHD symptoms for a child who may never have been identified as well as to having them seek allergy/asthma treatment if warranted. Milder forms of ADD are almost never identified, but causes the child some difficulty at home or at school. I use a lot of handouts to inform families who may have these problems in their children. I make referrals to the professionals when warranted. I use a diagnostic form to help you see if your child has some of these characteristics. It can have a profound negative effect on organizational skills which I teach, how to get through homework, and an option most do not know about doing, use some programs at home that can help students turn around some of their difficult behaviors they exhibit.
Time spent attending conferences and workshops began to help me learn how to help my severely-dyslexic son and grandson. Then I helped apply some of the concepts learned to help several dyslexic families with the problems they had including ADD/ADHA, organizational, spelling, reading, and comprehension issues. I have been volunteering for several years gaining experience along the way. Every student I have helped has had some kind of learning disability involved and guess those have various levels of dyslexia. In just a few cases have I been successful in getting them to have their children diagnosed. I have recently improved the outcomes of several students who have come to me and taken a complete non-reader and made him into a successful lst grade reader in a relatively short period of time. I have helped a student improve his reading level and am getting his performance to a 2nd ... read more
