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drliz@psychedconsult.comDoes your child or teen have reading difficulties or other language-based learning challenges?
* Is your child a reluctant or struggling reader?
* Does your child get frustrated, anxious or upset when it comes to reading tasks?
* Does your child work hard, get extra help at school and STILL struggle?
* Have you tried multiple ways to help but nothing seems to work?
Shannon Webster can help! She is a private Orton-Gillingham certified tutor with over 14 years of experience as an elementary special education resource room teacher, providing supplemental multi-sensory instruction in reading, language arts and math.
Shannon completed the two-year Orton-Gillingham program through the Scotch Plains Dyslexia Center, accredited through Fairleigh Dickinson University, in 2019, including 100 clinical hours. Her professional experience also includes serving on the WeAreTeachers Advisory Board and presenting at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference.
Shannon now works as a full-time private tutor, providing individualized, structured, multi-sensory literacy instruction to students in the Rockaway, NJ area and virtually.
Reach out to Shannon today:
shannonrlam@gmail.com
Does your child or teen have reading difficulties or other language-based learning challenges?
* Is your child a reluctant or struggling reader?
* Does your child get frustrated, anxious or upset when it comes to reading tasks?
* Does your child work hard, get extra help at school and STILL struggle?
* Have you tried multiple ways to help but nothing seems to work?
Laura Ruck at Glowing Literacy can help! She is a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist with 20 years of experience helping children, teens and families experience literacy success!
Reach out to her today:
glowingliteracy@gmail.com
written by Dr. Liz Nissim-Matheis, posted on Psychology Today
It’s March, and you’ve noticed a few things about your child’s reading and writing skills. At your last parent-teacher conference, your child’s teacher recognizes that your child is struggling with reading and writing. What can be further confusing is that your child may have made progress but is still not reading or writing at grade level. Slowly, over the school year, you’ve noticed that your child avoids reading or huffs and puffs when it’s time to sit down and write a response, a short answer, or an essay.
So now what?
We can’t ignore the elephant in the room. The COVID-19 pandemic created a gap in instruction for 1.5 years. Our children did not receive the face-to-face instruction that they needed. Many of the academic struggles that our children were experiencing went unnoticed because how can a teacher recognize reading and writing struggles when assignments are being handed in electronically. There isn’t an observation of the entire child who may have been melting down behind the screen. A great deal of teacher observations and academic instruction were lost during that time.
As our children progressed to the next grade and then the next, parents and teachers began to notice skills that were not at grade level in reading or writing. Our children began to show more behavioral signs, and the natural explanation was that our child was “behavioral” without truly understanding or investigating the underlying roots of those behaviors.
