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1139 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Westchester 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
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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."
  • Westchester 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.
  • Westchester 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!
  • Westchester 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 approach to math learning. Multisensory math may help everyone, especially those who struggle with arithmetic.
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Orton-Gillingham Approach in a Math Setting

Orton-Gillingham is a multimodal approach to literacy instruction. It entails using auditory, visual, sensory, and kinesthetic components to assist primary arithmetic students in comprehending the relationship between language and letters or words.

Multisensory arithmetic is based on the same concepts as traditional math education. It involves the use of touch, sight, hearing, and movement when learning a new concept or diea. This method was extended and improved further by Marilyn Zecher, M.A., CALT, a licensed academic language therapist and multisensory math specialist, speaker, and former classroom demonstration instructor and Orton-Gillingham math tutor. She used and integrated the Orton-Gillingham Approach with evidence-based techniques based on neuroimaging research and NCTM and What Works Clearinghouse guidelines.

Zecher stresses the importance of the math language, highlighting the need to teach language throughout idea creation and skill development for application. To help learners best understand basic arithmetic topics, multisensory math employs the Concrete, Representational, and Abstract (CRA) teaching sequence with expressive language.

Learners must be clearly instructed, practice skills regularly, and acquire new ideas via CRA to guarantee successful basic arithmetic teaching utilizing the multimodal math method.

Touch (Concrete) – This element of multisensory math relates to touch. Westchester multisensory math tutors utilize physical items to illustrate ideas or numbers, such as fractions, which are shown by breaking apart foam forms (or using other manipulatives).

Representational (Drawing) – Following the physical or tactile demonstration, instructors introduce the representational or drawing component. The multisensory approach in teaching invites pupils to develop their visual representation of the topic they have learned. It also helps pupils make their connections and enables them to put down their thoughts.

Abstract (Symbols) – After students have entirely comprehended multisensory math lesson plans presented and built upon during Concrete and Representational, they will go to the abstract or symbols sequence. Traditionally, basic arithmetic classes were presented by instructors using solely abstract ideas (numbers and symbols). While this has succeeded for some students, others find it challenging to comprehend arithmetic concepts without tangible or visual representation.

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Elementary Math Concepts that Learners Should Master

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

  • Pattern Recognition and Subitizing – The ability to quickly recognize quantity, also known as subitizing, is a fundamental idea in arithmetic and one of its foundations. Patterns are the greatest method to perceive quantity. Developing a good number sense requires the capacity to visualize numbers. It paves the way for operational fluency and a better grasp of numerical connections. Recognizing dice patterns is an example of subitizing: Without having to count or touch each dot, the amount or quantity may be best understood visually. Similarly, it is critical to identify number bonds 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 a perfect way to use multisensory tutoring methods. Learners may watch the amount change and feel a greater weight as the number becomes bigger. Similarly, it assists students in visualizing the difference between a number’s standard (the number’s name = 125) and extended form (what it is composed of = 100 + 20 + 5).
  • Distributive Property – This relates to a learner’s capacity to act on larger amounts while also knowing that those quantities may be broken down or decomposed and then worked on. Consider the number 15 multiplied by three. Students must first learn that 15 may be broken down into 10 and 5. They may then distribute (multiply) 3 and combine the results to get 15 x 3.
  • What exactly is ONE, and what are its many names? – This relates 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 quantity itself.
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Getting Started on Multisensory Elementary Math Techniques

Literacy and reading instruction was the first to use multisensory math course teaching techniques. However, learning experts have shown that the same multimodal method may be successfully used when teaching arithmetic, mainly in basic math using the CRA framework.

When starting with multisensory math tutoring, it is important to start with the students’ abilities. The CRA technique may then be used to teach new ideas. Manipulatives are essential in multimodal math teaching, particularly in primary school, but they do not have to be costly. The following 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 basic math teaching techniques suggested by Westchester multisensory math tutor:

  • Visualizing using manipulatives such as beads, color tiles, or blocks is a great way to teach fundamental operations such as addition and subtraction. Young learners get a better grasp of how arithmetic operations operate by seeing how amounts change. Visualization also aids in the understanding of quantities and the development of number sense in youngsters.
  • Building forms using cubes or tiles provides youngsters with a tangible and physical representation of dimensions and characteristics.
  • Drawing math problems is an excellent method to reinforce hands-on exercises since it allows students to demonstrate their reasoning and the idea they have learned.
  • Children may “feel” the worth of numbers by tapping out numbers. It assists pupils in better understanding and connecting symbols and real numbers.
  • Songs are used to assist students in remembering arithmetic principles and teach new ideas.
  • Through play and games, we can include movement in arithmetic.
  • To teach regrouping and place value, use bundling sticks or coffee stirrers. This may also be accomplished using base ten blocks.
  • A hundreds chart is a great method to educate youngsters about number connections.
  • Fractions are introduced and taught by cutting pizza into pieces. When you cut up a paper or cardboard pizza, children may see what fractions look like when they choose pieces.

Here are helpful resources:

  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 visually depicts a number, such as a fraction, an integer, or a whole number. The numerals are uniformly spaced on a straight line, allowing pupils to see numerical sequences. Number lines may be used to compare and arrange numbers and teach counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing methods.

Addition – Addition is defined as merging two or more groups of items into a single group as one of the fundamental arithmetic operations. In mathematics, addition is the sum or total of two or more numbers. Learners must also understand the properties of addition to work with numbers more effectively.

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

Division – This operation refers to dividing a large number into smaller groups or dividing a large number into equal pieces. It is the opposite of multiplication. The commutative and associative properties of real numbers do not apply to division.

Multiplication – In mathematics, multiplication refers to calculating the sum of two or more integers by adding them repeatedly. A multiplicand (the number multiplied by another number), multiplier (the number multiplied by it), and the product or outcome of multiplying are all included in a multiplication statement. Multiplication possesses commutative, associative, identity, and distributive properties.

Fractions – Fractions divide numbers into equal pieces. It is made up of a numerator, which is the number of equal parts tallied, and a denominator, which is the total number of equal parts in one whole. Fractions are classified into three types: proper, improper, and mixed fractions.

Decimals – A decimal is a method of writing fractions. It is made up of a whole number and a bit of a whole number (any portion less than one), separated by a dot or decimal point. Decimals are expressed on a ten-point scale (tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and so on).

Contact us today to learn more about how our multisensory math tutors can come to your Westchester home. Or work with us remotely!

Westchester Multisensory Math Tutor, Brooklyn LettersBetsy S.

M.S. Education

Betsy is a second-grade teacher at a private school in the Upper West Side. 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 struggle to learn these fundamental skills.

Betsy teaches through an inquiry-based curriculum and 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. One of her areas of expertise is helping students learn a number sense, building strategies to solve math word problems, and understand maths concepts (connecting abstract to concrete). She is also trained in Everyday Math, 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 as they acquire underlying literacy skills. In a favorite curriculum at her school, Betsy aligns her reading and writing units through transdisciplinary themes.

Location: Rye, Rye Book, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Scarsdale
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: First-Third grade

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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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Anyelis T.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Dual Masters in Science of Education in General and Special Education for grades 1-6

Anyelis graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She then joined The Center of Autism and Related Disorder, where she conducted Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy to children living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She also coached therapists and families on how to conduct ABA and created individualized programs for scholars, while obtaining her Dual Masters in Science of Education in General and Special Education for grades 1-6. Anyelis taught Kindergarten for over 5 years with experience in Pre-K, and then became the first Multilingual Learner Specialist in her school.

During this time, she has taught socio-emotional learning, writing, math, science, social studies, read aloud, math stories and targeted literacy in both the General and Special Education setting. In her numerous roles, Anyelis has offered growth to all students in various settings including the classroom, in small group and one-on-one intervention. This includes students who struggle with reading, writing, and math as well as those who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), executive functioning disorders, behavioral challenges, and speech and language impairment. Individualizing and fostering great joy on school curricula to match the requirements and problems of the clients with whom she works is one of Anyelis’ most amazing abilities.

She has been trained and has experience with the following Math and Language Arts programs like Amplify, CKLA, iReady, NWEA, STEP tool, F&P, and Zearn to analyze and target instruction to student needs. Anyelis is also trained on data collection of academic progress and behavioral progress, as well as creating Behavioral Intervention Plans and collecting Functional Behavioral Analysis data. Her experience broadened her understanding of teaching techniques as well as her capacity for adaptability, individualization, acceptance and appreciation for a variety of cultures, beliefs, and learning styles.

Through enthusiastic affirmation of each student’s unique potential, Anyelis thrives to inspire all of her students to pursue lifelong learning. Anyelis has witnessed how this approach promotes independence and ownership in students. She uses a range of tactics through tailored training to fulfill the requirements of her students. She works with children to improve not just their literacy abilities but also their confidence and self-esteem so they are ready to use what they have learned back in their classes.

Anyelis enjoys going to museums, trying out new restaurants, doing adventures activities, event decorating and crafting.

LOCATION: MANHATTAN – Battery Park City, Central Midtown, Chelsea, Chinatown, Clinton, East Village, Financial District, Flatiron District, Garment District, Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village, Harlem Hell’s Kitchen, Hudson Square, Kips Bay, Little Italy, Lower East Side, Midtown, Murray Hill, SOHO, Sutton Place, Theatre District, Times Square, TriBeCa, Turtle Bay, Union Square, Upper East Side, West Village
BROOKLYN: Williamsburg
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TYPE OF SERVICES: Individual therapy, literacy and math instruction for individual students and groups (2-3 children), ABA therapy
EXPERTISE: Early childhood education, special education, social/emotional development. Early Literacy: Phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling fluency, reading comprehension, writing and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
AGES: birth through elementary school

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Jenna P.

M.S. Education

Jenna is a certified educator with over ten years of experience working with students in Grades 1-6. She holds a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education and a Bachelors’s Degree in Psychology. She also has her Students with Disabilities certification in New York. Jenna has training and experience working with students with Autism, behavior management, and teaching students with learning differences. Her experience helps her understand the best ways to address students’ specific needs.

Jenna has experience in Manhattan providing one-to-one instruction and small group instruction, as well as SEIT work in various schools. She has worked with children with a diverse range of diagnoses including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADD/ADHD, speech/language delays, and other learning differences. She focuses on creating a personalized and supportive relationship with each student while targeting their specific needs and goals. She identifies what motivates each child and uses reinforcers and breaks throughout her sessions to maintain engagement and focus.

Jenna is skilled in providing literacy support, as well as helping with math concepts and problem-solving. She uses a variety of approaches and modifications based on the student’s learning styles to help them tackle these commonly challenging content areas. Jenna provides multi-sensory math support through the use of tactile methods including using manipulatives and visual aids to represent numerical values. This helps support math skills such as counting, one-to-one correspondence, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Jenna also uses various multisensory and interactive techniques to help improve literacy skills such as reading fluency, reading comprehension, sight word recognition, decoding, and spelling. To teach sight words and spelling, Jenna uses a “read it, build it, write it” technique, as well as air writing, word recognition games, and focus on segmenting and blending to help the students connect in various ways to what the words they are learning. To support reading comprehension skills, Jenna encourages the student to create pictures in their head or visualizations as they read, use context clues, and locate keywords to help them understand the text. Jenna evaluates each student to see what strategies would work best and ways to modify the learning to best support the child.

Executive functioning skills can be difficult for many students and can impact their academic success, as well as their ability to build strong social relationships. Jenna helps students strengthen these skills by focusing on organizational skills, planning, time management, self-control, flexibility, attention, and working memory. Some techniques used to improve these areas are creating schedules to set expectations, teaching and practicing routines, using timers, playing games and songs to improve memory and recall, and using reinforcers and breaks to help improve impulse control and self-regulation. For improvement with working memory deficits, students are shown how to use notes, lists, and other visuals to help them retain and store learned information and use it in other areas. To help build social skills, Jenna uses social stories to demonstrate different conversation starters and appropriate topics when in a social setting. Modeling, role-playing, and videos are also used to help students gain confidence to improve their social relationships.

TYPE OF SERVICES: Individualized literacy instruction, math problem-solving skills, homework help, executive functioning skills, and building social skills.
EXPERTISE: Working one-to-one with students with learning differences in all content areas.
AGES: Grades 1-6

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Kara W.

Certified Elementary, Special Education Teacher

Kara, a Certified Elementary, Special Education Teacher and Dyslexia Practitioner has been working in the public school setting for the past 6 years. She graduated with her Masters of Science in Education with a speciality in learning and behavior disorders from CUNY Hunter College.

Kara is certified in the Wilson Reading Program that specifically works to target language-based learning disabilities like dyslexia. She is also trained in several other multisensory reading and writing programs. Kara is currently a special education teacher in Westchester County working with students that have learning disabilities, executive functioning difficulties, ADHD, and autism. Kara also helps students with test prep for local and state exams.

When not teaching or tutoring, Kara enjoys spending time with her husband and 1-year-old daughter, Avery. Kara also enjoys exercising and loves working with The Girls on the Run running program!

LOCATION: Westchester/Lower Hudson Valley
TYPE OF SERVICES: individual & group sessions, evaluations, parent consultations, etc.
EXPERTISE: Language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, etc.
AGES: Kindergarten-6th Grade

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Zachary Z.

NYS Professional teaching certificate in Childhood Education, Grades 1-6

Zachary is an experienced educator with over a decade of experience in the K-2 learning space. He holds an Ed.M. and M.S.Ed from Teachers College, Columbia University and The College of St. Rose. He has a NYS Professional teaching certificate in Childhood Education, Grades 1-6 and his school building leader license, as well.

Zach has taught first and second grades for over a decade prior to transitioning to a school leader role. Throughout his work he has had extensive development on the Science of Reading and foundational skills in early literacy and math and has consistently been able to move the needle on student achievement with struggling leaders. Zach has experience with the following curricula: Success For All (phonics), Reading Mastery (phonics), Great Minds/Eureka Math, Math In Focus, Singapore Math and Cognitively Guided Instruction. Zach has been trained in the University of Chicago’s STEP Assessment and Fountas and Pinnell’s Benchmark Assessment System.

Zach creates a trusting environment in which students are not afraid to take risks and apply their learning. Zach takes a strength based approach and builds on the capitol students already have. Zachary has extensive experience working with children with exceptionalities and neurotypical learners.

Zach will employ a variety of research based strategies, hands-on activities and direct instruction to support your learner: this includes a variety of phonics practices focused on decoding/encoding, in math numeracy, cardinality and how numbers work. Additionally, Zach has experience with upper elementary school students (3rd and 4th grades) in preparing them for NYS assessments, both ELA and Math. In addition to coaching students on test taking strategies Zach also focuses on comprehension.

TYPE OF SERVICES: Individual tutoring, group tutoring, Foundational Skills in Literacy and Math, assessment
EXPERTISE: Increasing fluency and comprehension with emergent readers and mathematicians.
AGES: Kindergarten through Grade 4

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Michelle S.

M.S. ED., NYS Certified Early Childhood and Special Education (Birth – 2nd Grade)

Michelle’s experience over the past 16 years has included working as a math and reading learning specialist, a headteacher in a two-year-old classroom, co-teaching in a kindergarten and first-grade special education classroom, private SEIT work, as well as, leading social groups, providing a safe environment to strengthen social interaction and communication skills for children.

What truly sets Michelle apart from other learning specialists is her ability to connect to children encountering learning differences.  As a child, Michelle struggled with massive learning disabilities.  She attended the Windward school and was personally taught by Dr. Judith Hochman, creator of the Hochman Method.  Dr. Hochman taught Michelle how to learn, despite being ADD, having dyslexia, auditory processing issues, executive function issues, a weak working memory, and retrieval difficulties amongst a long list of other learning differences.  It is this life experience that motivates and allows her the ability to truly understand the frustration children with learning differences encounter.   As a mother of two young girls, Michelle now has the perspective from every angle of learning and child development to be a truly extraordinary educator.

Michelle’s most significant accomplishment throughout her extensive career is the educational consulting firm she started in 2009.  In this position, she works one on one with parents and students ranging from ages two to nine.  Students work with Michelle for a litany of reasons. She specializes in providing remedies to children who may present with developmental delays, fine motor delays, speech and language delays reading, writing and math learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, socialization difficulties, as well as those children who may be confronted with executive functioning, academic delays, anxiety, and any behavior challenges.

Michelle focuses on meeting each child’s individual educational and developmental needs with a multisensory approach.  Her sessions are centered on self-directed learning, critical thinking, problem-solving, and socialization. Based on parent, teacher, and therapist recommendations She provides students with their own specialized programs.  Michelle strongly believes that team involvement is the key to academic growth. She consistently collaborates with specialists across all domains, ensuring the entire team is on the same page.  Michelle believes this is an absolute necessity to ensure strategies, language, and coping mechanisms are carried across the board, solidifying newly acquired skill sets.  Michelle feels young children’s confidence plays an imperative role in emotionally allowing children to be open to learning.  Her goal is to give every child the opportunity to excel with confidence and self-assurance, in order to reach their optimum potential.

Michelle earned a Master of Science in Teaching, Early Childhood Special Education (Dual Certification), (May 2009) From Toro College, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications, from Baruch College (May 2005.)  She is New York State Certification, Early Childhood Education, (September 2009) and New York State Certification, Students with Disabilities (September 2009) Michelle is formally trained in the Corrective Reading Program, Wilson Fundations, Wilson Reading System, The Orton Gillingham Approach, Guided Reading Leveled Literacy.  She also has a passion for teaching math and has training in the Stern Arrhythmic program which incorporates both kinesthetic/tactile strategies to reach all learners. Michelle is trained in the Handwriting without Tears, Sounds in Motion Program, and is a member of ATIS (Association of Teachers in Independent Schools.)

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