Homework Help

Our Study skills Program helps students:

• Establish efficient, independent after-school routines
• Develop organizational and time management skills
• Set, plan, and follow through on short-term goals
• Improve communication and self-advocacy at school

Learning Skills Development

When we determine that a student is not processing information efficiently, we work to prepare the student’s brain for learning by building the underlying mental skills that are so vital to academic success.

These include skills such as:

• Memory
• Attention
• Processing Speed
• Auditory processing, language, and communication
• Phonemic awareness
• Visual processing
• Logic and reasoning
• Executive function

Cognitive skills training is done one-to-one with students and focuses on developing those skills that lead to independent, academic success.

Math Intervention

We provide individual sessions with students that focus on:

• Discovery of basic facts through concrete experiences
• Using language to think about those experiences
• Using mental imagery to further internalize and understand basic math experiences, operations, and principles
• Integrating and applying the understanding to problem solving

Our initial assessment will determine your child’s needs. Instruction is paced to the level of each individual.  Manipulatives, language, and mental imagery are used extensively to provide an understanding of math operations and concepts.  Students are taught sequentially from a very basic level.  Building from there, any gaps in background knowledge are filled in.

Reading and Writing Intervention

We help students that struggle with learning how to read, write, spell or use written language efficiently. We address  executive function difficulties that interfere with learning.

When students lack the key reading skills of blending, segmenting, and analyzing sounds, it tells us that they are working too hard to read and write.  As these skills are developed, we  teach the phonetic relationship of our code  to allow your child to read and write words and sentences more accurately and automatically.  The combination of skill development and understanding of our written code will promote a new confidence in reading.

Getting Started

The process begins with a phone consultation with Sean Dornan in order to learn more about your child and to provide an opportunity for you to ask some questions.  A brief screening or more extensive testing will be recommended based on the information that you provide and the complexity of your child’s learning problem.

You can call Sean at 805.234.1908 or email him at sdornan@sbcglobal.net