Individualized remediation for reading, spelling, comprehension, writing, and math. The question that matters most is why a child is struggling, because the answer determines what kind of instruction will help.
Reading, writing, and math difficulties rarely have a single cause, and they rarely respond to a single approach. A child who cannot sound out words has a different underlying profile than a child who can decode but does not remember what they read.
Every student begins with a skills assessment. We look at the sub-skills in each academic domain, including phonological awareness, orthographic processing, rapid naming, number sense, and working memory, and compile the results into a learning map. Those results determine which methodology to use, shape the individualized learning plan, and set the goals for instruction.
One-on-one, following an explicit teaching model. We demonstrates, the student practices in multisensory modalities with support, then independently. Instruction is targeted and explicit, with manipulative tools and visual supports appropriate to the content and student, and each lesson is scaffolded from easier to more difficult tasks.
We report progress every quarter, or 20 hours of instruction (whichever is more frequent). Parent updates track where the student is in the curriculum, what they have mastered, what they are working on, and what comes next.
Different learning profiles require different interventions. Our clinicians are trained in multiple evidence-based programs and draw from one, or combinations, that fits each student's profile and pre assessment data.
A quick conversation helps us hear your concerns and guide you to the next steps. We will get you set up to start tutoring, an independent academic evaluation, or a home learning kit, or send you to the professionals who can help if we cannot.
We are committed to working against the way that racial and socioeconomic privilege manifests itself in the identification and remediation of learning disabilities.
We do what we can by offering need based scholarships, doing pro-bono consultation for families with economic needs, providing services in some of Maine's lowest resource schools, and working with educational advocates on the toughest cases to help ALL students get what they need.