Tiffany came to the Manhasset, NY Huntington in September 2010 as a kindergarten student. At the time that we met her, she had no sight words, poor letter recognition, no phonetic skills and was a non-reader. Her mom has a language barrier and needed help for her daughter and an advocate to help them to work with the school system. They found us through the principal at one of our local schools.

Within the first month of attendance, Tiffany began to recognize sight words, sound out sentences and overcome her fear of being in school She was so fearful that it would always be hard for her that she gave her mom a hard time about doing any work at all. Very young students have a persuasive way of asking not to do something. It is hard for them to understand how important learning is when they are so young and already so far behind. She continued through the next school year and then went away over the summer.

In the very beginning of the next school year, Tiffany's mom called us and re-enrolled Tiffany, now a first-grader. After meeting with Tiffany's teacher at school, we shared with mom that the teacher said Tiffany is one of her best readers and is getting better at it every day. Her confidence level has increased a lot from last year and now she looks forward to learning. She recently completed her initial learning-center program and is now going to begin her maintenance program to continue to improve her reading skills and stay at the top of the class.

Her mom also enrolled Tiffany's brother, Jesse. They are both here 3-4 times per week.

Please see Tiffany's note below.

It helped me learn new words, read and write sentences. Now I know how to spell the words. I can do things by myself.

FROM: Tiffany