Conquering Childhood Illiteracy With A Live Reading Tutor

By Andrea Davidson


Teaching a child can be hard. It can even be harder when teaching them, specifically, how to read. Having a live Reading Tutor can make learning how to read much easier using an intense, intervention plan. Additionally, a program like this helps teens, adults, and children who are struggling with illiteracy.

A benefit to accessing an intense, literacy intervention is that the initial approach is determining the reasons why a student is having a difficult time. This removes the focal point of grade level and releases the burden of keeping up with a whole class of pupils. Moreover, the tool used to help students overcome and pinpoint learning issues is called the PACE program.

The PACE Program identifies as the Processing and Cognitive Enhancement program. Some of the difficulties that the PACE Program identifies in a student can be: Their inability to process information quickly and therefore, the student works slowly; another difficulty may be their ability to process information through auditory and/or visualization; and then it may be identified that a student is often frustrated during the process of learning due to disorganization. These are just a few of the obstacles that the program pinpoints in students in order to provide individualized help towards becoming literacy independent.

When an individual becomes a committed student to the program, they become the recipient of a 36-hour coursework that is hands-on with step-by-step customisation. Considering that the program is intensive, it is also designed to be fun as well as challenging with the promise to make every effort the student's success with easy-to-achieve accomplishments as they advance in their learning. This is all achieved at a Thinking Center.

Starting with students as young as age six all the way to those who are adults, Thinking Centers are able to accommodate literacy at every level. Every student that commits to the program are assigned to a Thinking Center Specialist. It is this live person that helps in administering the PACE program and provide the hands-on, individualized assistance that each student needs.

In addition to Thinking Centers' ability help students at any level, they are also ready to help students with special needs. A special needs student can be classified as one who suffers from dyslexia, AD/HD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and those who are ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages. Plus, they are also ready to help students who are at risk.

An at risk student is classified as such due to a higher susceptibility of failure than other people because of certain criteria. These criteria that helps make this determination are usually based on socioeconomic circumstances, past bad behaviour, and even being identified as an ethnic minority. The Thinking Center Specialist is prepared to assist this student as well.

Obtaining a live reading tutor can be achieved finding a Thinking Center Specialist. Using the PACE program as the tool, this specialist is prepared to aid students, on every level, succeed in their academic efforts. They are prepared to even help students who have special and/or considered to be at risk. With them, learning is intense and challenging, fun and rewarding.




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