Jean A.
- Rockport, TX 78382 ( 7.5 mi )
- Expert Hearing Impaired 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, Dyslexia, ADD/ADHD
My comments on tutoring Hearing Impaired : Helped identify an elementary student in 3rd grade who had been receiving speech services when he had never been identified for having a profound hearing loss in his left ear which was causing him to talk "funny". Referred the parent to an audiologist; and because the student was already receiving special ed services, I got all of his hearing identication paid for by his school district. I was able to use the ASHA material distributed to his ARD Committee and got the services approved for the student. It never occurred to the school or the ARD Committee he was receiving speech therapy for sounds he could not hear. I significally improved the outcomes for this student.
One-on-one, sequential, multisensory, and repetitive approach.
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 stud ... read more
