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Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn LettersBrooklyn Letters

1139 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Emily Matles ★★★★★ a week ago
    We would highly recommend Ally! Our son always asks about her, so very thankful to Brooklyn Letters for introducing us.
    ~ Emily, mom of Brooklyn 2 year old
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters T Ainsley ★★★★★ 5 months ago
    I cannot express how grateful and rewarding my experience with Brooklyn Letters has been. Her tutor Ms. Daria is so knowledgeable, amazing, kind and awesome. My daughter has made so much progress in Literacy and Math and it's all … More thanks to Ms. Daria. I know my daughter is sad that she can no longer work with Ms. Daria, as she looked forward to their sessions every week. Thank you again!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Natalie Levon ★★★★★ 4 months ago
    Nicole has been an amazing therapist!! She played a tremendous role in our daughter’s speech progress and overall development. She has come such a long way and we are so happy with the therapy she received!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Colin Peters ★★★★★ 6 months ago
    We could not be happier with the services Valerie provided! She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable and provided significant guidance to support our daughter's speech development outside of our scheduled sessions. She established … More a great working relationship with her, and she will definitely be missed! Your business model is amazing and it was an absolute pleasure working with Valerie. I've referred your organization and Valerie to the Executive Director of our daughter's school and friends/colleagues who are in need of speech therapy services.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Lil Amatore ★★★★★ 7 months ago
    Christina was absolutely wonderful. She went out of her way to win my son over and it worked. He looked forward to her visits and his speech improved so much under her care. She was super flexible and it’s clear she truly cares. We adore … More Christina and we’re going to miss her. Almost sad he improved so much! She’s simply amazing and we can’t say enough how great she is. I would recommend her services to anyone and everyone, without hesitation. Thank you so much for connecting us with her!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Heather Liljengren ★★★★★ a year ago
    We cannot say enough good things about Effie, the ASL teacher, who was so engaged and effective with our 2 year old daughter from the very first session! Effie gladly included our whole family in the sessions! Her expertise and fantastic … More personality gave our daughter a way to communicate that she was so desperately seeking. The coordinators at Brooklyn Letters were so helpful and communicative…I would highly recommend their services!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Brigid Bower ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Samantha Dalmas was fantastic! We saw her for a feeding therapy evaluation and while she doesn’t think my daughter needs more feeding therapy sessions at this time, but she gave me lots of tips to try. If my daughter's doctors want … More to see more progress at her next appointment, I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Samantha again.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Duygu Başaran ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Brooklyn Letters was recommended to me through a friend's speech therapist friend in NJ. The articulation evaluation for my daughter went well. We were pleased with Kristin's services.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Kelley Peters-Patel ★★★★★ a year ago
    Melissa was wonderful. Our daughter warmed to her immediately and by the time she left, had already started "practicing" some of the techniques Melissa had shown her. I will not hesitate at all to reach out to Melissa again, should … More the need arise.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters R Elmore ★★★★★ a year ago
    Aileen was INCREDIBLY helpful to us, both in assessing possible origins of my grandson's food aversions, as well as informing us of various available interventions to consider.
    I can’t thank you and Brooklyn Letters enough for connecting
    … More us with Aileen. In all our feeding therapy journey we have not gotten anything near the kind of benefit that we did from her. Her knowledge, professionalism, and responsiveness have put us on the path of progress with my grandson and has also made us feel genuinely well cared for.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Christine Weiher ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    We were amazed with Allison! She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. … More I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Andrea Saffady ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    My sessions with Karen have been extremely helpful. My speech has improved tremendously. In fact, I just finished 2 hours of conducting interviews with a consulting client via MS Teams and I have an upcoming conference call. Both my … More neurologist and neurosurgeon remarked about how good my speech is. Much of the day it is perfect, although I still have some rough spots when I get tired or speak too quickly. One of my granddaughters is a speech pathology student at Ithaca College. She sat in on 2 sessions while she was home for winter break, and she was very impressed with Karen.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Jacob B ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were delighted with Christie. First, and most importantly, our son made great strides under her guidance. So great, that we felt he no longer needed help! She was incredibly patient and kind with him and our son really responded to … More her. Christie was also great with me and my wife. She provided thorough and informative updates on our son's progress and which exercises she was using with him, so we could reinforce what she was teaching him. All in all, we had a fabulous experience with Christie and would highly recommend her.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Jessica C ★★★★★ a year ago
    Theo was wonderful and his work with my son has produced some progress. I am grateful for the services Theo provided.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Melissa Stevens ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Highly recommend Jill. She is a total pleasure to work with. After a few months working with Jill, my son is reading above grade level and LOVES to read. Mission accomplished!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Demet Evren ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Paige was great and we had been really happy with her. I would highly recommend her! I recommend Brooklyn Letters to whomever asks for a speech therapist.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Jeizel Rosenthal ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Isabel was WONDERFUL and our son absolutely adored her, and he is making great progress with his reading and writing.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Lesley Duval ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Theo was fantastic with our 4yo son. We were very worried that his progress would fall off when we had to switch to remote sessions, but Theo kept our son happy and engaged through the screen. Highly highly recommend!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Samantha Packard ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    We've been working with Theo from Brooklyn Letters for close to 4 months now and the results are apparent; our daughter has vastly improved her speech in a relatively short amount of time. We make "Theo Day" a celebration … More in our house with pancakes for breakfast, and the enthusiasm is matched in the sessions. Theo is fun, patient, professional, and caring, and he gives us the tools to take the lessons beyond the session. Thank you Theo, and Brooklyn Letters, for helping our daughter express herself.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Travis Ricca ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    I worked with Alina to enhance my pronunciation, tone, and pacing while communicating socially and in a work environment. She was great to work with and clear about goals and learning objectives. The improvement from day 1 has been tremendous! … More
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Enrico Bermudez ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Cathy has been excellent with us and our son. We will sorely miss her. He has improved significantly with Cathy’s help. Cathy was a true partner with us, especially as we pursued additional help through our son’s school system.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Kayne Elisabeth Wilk ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We really loved working with Alina, she is so fantastic. Patient yet firm, and determined the best course of action very clearly and succintly for us. And it all transitioned so well to Zoom as well. I will definitely be back in touch for … More services for our other child after summer break!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Jen S ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Vera was amazing! My 11 yo daughter made progress so quickly and really looked forward to her sessions. She was kept motivated and engaged.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters susie tofte ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    The work that Allison P. did with our daughter over the years has been invaluable to us. Our daughter had such a good relationship with Allison, and it allowed them to work really well together - even remotely these past 6 months. This … More year, Allison went above and beyond by helping us throughout the neuropsych eval we did, trying to re-open our daughter's IEP at her school, and eventually landing her at our chosen school. She was in contact with our daughter's teachers, with the neuropsychologist, and made herself available as a reference to speak on behalf of our daughter's learning differences.
    Allison stopped by our house last week to give our daughter cupcakes and say goodbye, and I literally cried with appreciation for what an amazing speech therapist she has been. She has been our daughter's biggest champion. The new families that she will work with this year are lucky to have her.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Alicia Perez-Katz ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Sydney was great! Our son was sad to end his sessions with her, which says a lot. We appreciated her honest assessment of his skill level, and he now has materials to self monitor and practice. Thank you!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Kristin Ames ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Our experience with Theo was terrific. Theo was great with my son. He developed a positive relationship with him based on sincerity, respect, trust and a deep personal connection. In their lessons, Theo was encouraging, creative and kind. … More He helped our son understand how to differentiate the sounds he made when he spoke, and gave him great exercises to practice every week between lessons. Our son was sorry to have the lessons come to an end, but recognized that Theo had helped him as much as possible and it was time for him to stop. Theo explained to him (and us) how to keep working to get the last 5%, and encouraged him to keep working on the exercises on his own. I have recommended Theo to another parent who noticed my son's improvement and inquired for her own son.
    We are all grateful to have gotten to know Theo, and we greatly appreciate all the work he did to help our son.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Aisha Holder ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    "I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Michelle Macroy-Higgins. We are extremely pleased with her work with our daughter. I was so grateful for my daughter to have a speech therapist who is a researcher (specialty in late … More talkers), graduate professor and practitioner. Her expertise was clearly evident in our conversations and work with our daughter. She was very responsive to my questions and often sent articles and other materials about language development that I found helpful. Thankfully, my daughter's speech improved tremendously. Michelle developed such a warm relationship with my daughter. My daughter was always excited to see Michelle and would greet her at the door with a big hug. Lastly, I would add that Michelle always demonstrated empathy with me as a mother who was initially worried about her daughter's language development. I could go on and on about how pleased we were with Michelle's work."
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Andrea Peartree ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Theo is a wonderful Clinton Hill speech therapist. We were really pleased with him. Our son showed drastic improvement, not only in his speech but in his confidence.
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters mario costa ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Alexa has been an enthusiastic, reliable, well prepared and caring teacher for our 6 year old daughter. She has been able to improve and increase our daughter's confidence lesson by lesson with patience and competence; through varied … More and productive didactic practice. Alexa has engaged our daughter in several activities that always kept her motivated and eager to learn literacy. My wife and I, both of us are educators, feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe Alexa's pedagogical skills. Alexa has had a big impact on our daughter literacy growth. Thank you Brooklyn Letters!
  • Connecticut Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn Letters Lily Alt ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were absolutely DELIGHTED with Marsha's services. She was wonderful. We found her to be kind, fun, engaging, very knowledgeable. She provided us with clear instructions and additional written handouts each week. She engaged our … More son with different techniques and toys, and showed us how to use her techniques when we were interacting with him. I actually just texted her on Saturday - Our son finally said "more" - one of the target words we had been working on with her. It was a total joy to hear, and I had to share it with her - she wrote back immediately to congratulate us. I am so appreciative of her expertise, and wish we could have seen her for longer. I recommended her to another family in our neighborhood who is looking for a speech therapist.

What is Multisensory Math?

Multisensory math is a three-dimensional sequential mathematical learning technique. Multisensory math programs can help anyone, particularly those who struggle with math.

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Orton-Gillingham Approach in a Math Setting

An Orton-Gillingham method is a multimodal approach to literacy teaching. It involves integrating auditory, visual, sensory, and kinesthetic components to enable primary school students to describe the connection between language and letters or words.

Multisensory math is based on the same concepts as traditional mathematics. However, learning and teaching a new concept involves touch, sight, hearing, and movement. This method was developed and improved upon us by Marilyn Zecher, M.A., CALT, a certified academic language therapist and multisensory math specialist, speaker, and former classroom demonstration instructor. She used and integrated the Orton-Gillingham math with science- and research-backed approaches based on the neuroimaging research and guidelines from the NCTM and what works clearinghouse.

Zecher prioritizes math language, highlighting the need for teaching language throughout the development of concepts and techniques for application. Multisensory math techniques, for example, combines the Concrete, Representational, and Abstract (CRA) teaching sequence with expressive language to help students understand basic math ideas more effectively.

Students who use the multimodal math method must practice skills regularly and learn new ideas via CRA.

Touch (Concrete) – Touch is the centerpiece of this multimodal math concept. Multimodal math tutors in New Jersey utilize physical items to demonstrate concepts or numbers, such as fractions, which are shown by breaking apart foam objects (or using other manipulatives).

Representational (Drawing) – Representational modalities are introduced after the physical or tactile teaching modalities. Students are encouraged to develop visual representations of the information they have taught using the multisensory math approach. It also allows students to find a connection and share their answers.

Abstract (Symbols) – Students will move on to the abstract or symbols sequence after completely comprehending the multisensory math lesson plans provided and worked upon during Concrete and Representational. Teachers have always taught basic math courses using solely abstract ideas (numbers and symbols). While this has succeeded for some students, others find it challenging to comprehend mathematical concepts without a physical or visual representation.

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Elementary Math Concepts that Learners Should Master

According to Zecher, students in basic math must understand four conceptual boundaries that serve as the basis for subsequent arithmetic levels. These are:

  • Pattern Recognition and Subitizing – The ability to quickly recognize quantity, also known as subitizing, is a crucial principle and one of the mathematical foundations. The most efficient method to measure quantity is via patterns. It is necessary to be able to recognize numbers to have a strong number sense. It's ets the stage for increased operational fluency and better grasp of numerical connections. Recognizing dice patterns demonstrates alternation: the number or amount can be conceptualized visually without counting or touching each dot. Similarly, it is critical to acknowledge numerical relationships and comprehend that numbers may be deconstructed or broken down (8 into 3 and 5 or 2 and 6).
  • Place Value – Using craft sticks to teach place value is an excellent method to use multimodal teaching approaches. Learners, for example, may notice the amount changing and feel the items become heavier as the number increases. Similarly, it assists students in differentiating between a number’s standard (the number’s name = 125) and extended form (which is made up of = 100 + 20 + 5).
  • Distributive Property – It refers to a learner’s capacity to act on larger quantities while knowing that such amounts may be broken down or decomposed and then worked on. Think about the number 15 multiplied by three. First, students must grasp that the number 15 may be split into two parts: ten and five. They may then distribute (multiply) three and add the results to get 15 x three.
  • What exactly is ONE, and what are its many names? – This is similar to the idea that every number written over itself equals one. As a result, multiplying or dividing by one affects the composition of the amount rather than the amount itself.
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Getting Started on Multisensory Elementary Math Techniques

Multisensory methods were originally introduced by literacy and reading experts, before its multimodal methods were adapted to teaching mathematics.

In multisensory math, it is important to capitalize on a student’s existing abilities. After then, the CRA technique can be used to teach new topics. Manipulatives are required for multimodal math teaching, particularly in primary school, but they do not have to be costly. Here are some examples of frequently used items:

  • Craft sticks
  • Beads and string
  • Base ten blocks
  • Interlocking cubes
  • Color tiles
  • Foam stickers
  • Flat marbles
  • Dice/Dominoes (only up to six)

Here are some multisensory math strategies that a multisensory math teacher in Connecticut recommends:

  • Visualizing fundamental operations like addition and subtraction using manipulatives such as beads, color tiles, or blocks is great to teach them. Furthermore, by seeing how amounts change, young students get an understanding of how mathematical operations operate. Visualization also aids children’s understanding of quantities and the development of number sense.
  • Children might even get a physical and tactile picture of measurements and characteristics by building forms out of cubes or tiles.
  • Drawing math problems is an excellent method to teach hands-on multisensory math activities since it allows students to demonstrate their reasoning and the idea they have learned.
  • Children can “feel” the values of numbers by tapping out numbers. Furthermore, it aids pupils in comprehending and connecting symbols and real numbers.
  • Songs can be used to help and support students in remembering mathematical concepts.
  • Play and games are incorporated by including movement in mathematics.
  • To teach regrouping and place value, use bundling sticks or coffee stirrers. This may also be accomplished using base ten blocks.
  • A hundred chart is a fantastic method for teaching youngsters about number connections.
  • Fractions are introduced and taught by slicing pizza into pieces. When you cut up a paper or cardboard pizza, students may be able to see fractions when they pick pieces.

Here’s additional information about multimodal math:

  1. Free, ready-to-use classroom resources for all students
  2. Applying the Orton-Gillingham Approach to Math Lesson Planning
  3. ASDEC Multisensory Math I Course
  4. Math Print and Digital Resources
  5. XtraMath® is an online math fact fluency program and App that helps students develop quick recall and automaticity of their basic math facts.
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Number Lines – A number line visual represents a value, such as a fraction, integer, or a whole number. Students can comprehend numerical sequences because the numbers are evenly spaced on a straight line. Number lines may be used to compare and arrange numbers and teach multisensory math concepts such as counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

In addition, as one of the fundamental math operations, combines two or more items into a single group. In mathematics, addition is defined as the total or sum of two or more integers. As a result, to deal with numbers more correctly, students must also understand the characteristics of addiction.

Subtraction – Subtraction is a mathematical operation in which a number is subtracted from the total. Subtraction, like addition, has characteristics that are essential for understanding the operation. Subtraction, for example, is susceptible to the identity property and inverse operations. However, it is neither associative nor commutative.

Division – Separating a large number into smaller groups or breaking a huge number into equal pieces. It is the opposite of multiplication. Division does not obey the commutative and associative principles of real numbers.

Multiplication – In mathematics, multiplication computes the sum of two or more integers by adding them repeatedly. A multiplication statement has the following elements:

  • A multiplicand is a word with more than one meaning (the number multiplied by another number).
  • A multiplier is a kind of multiplier (the number multiplied by multiplied).
  • The product or outcome of multiplication.

Multiplication has the following properties: commutative, associative, identity, and distributive.

Fractions – Fractions are numbers that have been divided into equal pieces. It comprises a denominator and a numerator (the number of identical pieces are tallied) (the total number of equal parts in one whole). The three types of fractions are proper, improper, and mixed fractions.

Decimals – A decimal is a unit of measurement used to represent fractions. It is made up of a whole number and a fraction of a whole number (any fraction less than one), separated by a dot or decimal point. Decimals are represented on a ten-point scale (tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and so on).

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Derycka S.

Master’s in Special Education, New York State certifications in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities Grades 1-6

Derycka has a master’s in Special Education from Grand Canyon University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on Special Education. She has New York State certifications in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities in Grades 1-6. Derycka is also a literacy curriculum specialist, where she designs, organizes, and develops specialized instructional materials for 2nd-grade scholars. Her administrative work enhances scholars’ ELA critical and inferential thinking skills. Derycka has taught and tutored for nine years in various instructional capacities, including a first-grade self-contained classroom, a kindergarten to 2nd-grade integrated co-teaching classroom (ICT), and general education classrooms. Derycka is a 2nd-grade ICT teacher in a New York City Charter School in the Bronx. Derycka has taught students using many literacy and mathematics programs, including Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project, Bridges Mathematics, Ready Gen, Go Math, and the Engage NY ELA and Math modules. She has extensive literacy experience using Orton-Gillingham, Read Works, Wilson, and Fundations for supplemental ELA intervention. Additionally, she has experience with integrated instructional technology programs such as Lexia, Dream Box, Epic, and I-Ready in her daily small group and individualized classroom instruction. Derycka strongly understands how to support children with special needs through her work with parents and other special education teachers. Her experience includes: advising parents on appropriate services for their children, leading workshops for general education and special education teachers focused on differentiating instruction in the classroom, and presenting workshops for parents on reading comprehension and literacy strategies, which provides a plethora of strategies to support their children at home. Derycka is committed and will continue to help students and their academic growth.

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Betsy S.

M.S. Education

Betsy is a first-grade teacher at Purchase Elementary School in the Harrison Central School District. She previously taught at a private school on the Upper West Side for nine years. She received her Master’s Degree in General Education from Hunter College for first through sixth grades. Betsy has a passion for teaching math and reading to first through third-graders, including those who are advanced and those who need support to learn these fundamental skills.

Betsy had taught through an inquiry-based curriculum and the Common Core curriculum. She loves to see her students take ownership of their math and literacy learning. She uses a variety of strategies through personalized instruction to meet the needs of her students. She believes in a game-based, hands-on, multi-sensory approach to mastering mathematical concepts. Her areas of expertise are helping students learn a number sense, building strategies to solve math word problems, and understanding math concepts (connecting abstract to concrete). She teaches using the Singapore Math curriculum and is trained in EveryMath, Exemplars, Mathletics, and Matific.

Betsy is also passionate about reading and believes in the importance of building students’ confidence at the elementary level. She has experience in the Teachers College Reading Workshop and Fountas and Pinnel reading programs. She loves to find ways to spark reading in young children and scaffold and develop reading strategies to support them in acquiring underlying literacy skills.

Location: Westchester
Type of Services: Initial reading and math assessments, individualized reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling and math intervention, and instruction.
Expertise: Homework help, spelling difficulties, reading comprehension, expository and narrative writing instruction
Ages: elementary school

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