I offer a variety of consultative, training and speaking services that can be custom built to meet your needs , including personal consultations, coaching seminars, and diagnostic academic assessments.
Personal Consultations
I provide personal consultation services to both parents and school systems, including:
- Consultation, advice and planning to parents about their observations and concerns for their child's academic progress.
- Consultation, advice and planning for school systems interested in implementing (i) phonological awareness instruction and/or (ii) concept imagery instruction for developing vocabulary, reading comprehension, and written language, for all levels and teaching environments, including:
- early education
- special education
- kindergarten
- elementary classrooms
- junior high classrooms
- senior high classrooms
- college English
- classrooms for non-English speakers
- tutorial classrooms
Coaching Seminars
I have extensive experience in developing and delivering coaching seminars for educators and parents, including:
- Two week seminars on acquiring phonological awareness and concept imagery techniques to help struggling readers/spellers/writers of all ages, based on my book "Why Your Child Can't Read And Spell And What YOU Can Do About It"
- One day seminars on developing concept imagery in students:
- to increase vocabulary
- to enhance reading comprehension
- to improve written language construction
- to learn how to deal with abstract concepts
- to learn how to handle unfamiliar information
- to be able to answer multiple-choice questions
- to understand how to answer inferential questions
- Tailor-made seminars to train current and prospective teachers in phonological awareness and concept imagery implementation for use in:
- tutoring sessions
- early education classrooms
- elementary classrooms
- junior high classrooms
- senior high classrooms
- Tailor-made seminars to train parents in phonological awareness and concept imagery implementation to help their children achieve academic success
Diagnostic Academic Assessments
I offer comprehensive diagnostic academic assessments to schools and individuals. In the assessment, I will:
- identify academic strengths
- specify academic needs
- recommend strategies and techniques aligned to academic needs
- provide a thorough assessment of:
- word recognition levels
- phonological development
- word analysis skills
- oral reading comprehension
- silent reading comprehension
- spelling with isolated words
- written language competency with ideas, organization, vocabulary, syntax, grammar, spelling, punctuation conventions, and details
- listening comprehension
- oral vocabulary
- arithmetic computation
- mathematical concepts
- compare:
- word recognition levels in isolation with word recognition levels in context
- spelling competence in isolation with spelling accuracy in context
- oral reading comprehension with silent reading comprehension
- word attack skills in isolation with word attack attempts in context
- listening comprehension with reading comprehension
- oral vocabulary with written language vocabulary
- computational skills with knowledge about mathematical concepts
- suggest sources for academic support
- provide personal interview to discuss results and implications