what really matters

Does your child decode text really well, often clearly and quickly, but does their comprehension can lag sometimes to the point that they seem to glean no meaning from text? Hyperlexia is a phenomenon not a diagnosis and can occur on its own or alongside Developmental Language Disorder or Autism.

I love working with this population most of whom love concrete facts, symbols, and real world applications. For this work,  I utilize research on sentence-level reading comprehension, textbook strategies, and vocabulary acquisition. 

We often work from texts in the Core Knowledge Foundation Science series but can also use content materials from school. 

Depending on your child’s age, we may try and turn a sentence into a picture, map, or diagram. We work on vocabulary development, tying vocabulary to your child’s everyday life (for “friction” we may rub different surfaces in the room, and you may get an email from me with homework: asking you to point out the friction of your nail file, or experimenting barefoot versus socks on your hardwood floors, or striking a match). For older students I also teach symbolic note taking strategies.

And most of all, we work on the true task for all of us: figuring out what is important—what really matters.