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Literacy-related consulting services for students with learning differences |
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Literacy Advocates’ mission is to give all children access to research-based literacy practices beginning at the earliest possible age. Recent studies have shown that all but 3-5% of students can become proficient readers — yet a whopping 20-30% (far higher in many urban areas) are not given the tools they need to achieve this goal. In Connecticut alone, fewer than half of all fourth graders are able to read at proficiency levels as measured by state mastery tests.
Difficulties with decoding — or the ability to “sound out” words — are often first manifested as poor spelling (or “encoding”); it is sometimes not until students reach the secondary grades that these underlying decoding issues surface. Not surprisingly, it is far more difficult to remediate literacy problems at this late stage.
Whether your child has moderate to severe learning differences or is simply an “instructional casualty”, we can help isolate his or her specific literacy needs —then collaborate with your school team to ensure that these needs are being addressed appropriately. We also offer direct services — including tutoring, pre-literacy classes, and home programs — to complement these school services, if required.
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