The Learning Advantage
is your partner in your child's education.
Dyslexia Therapy and Reading Remediation are available year round!!
We provide specifically designed programs that are evidenced based, systematic, multi-sensory focusing on phonemic awareness, decoding/word attack, word study inquiry, fluency and accuracy, comprehension, spelling and written expression.
Click on the Dyslexia Therapy/Reading Remediation link above to learn more
Learning Advantage Workshop
(Executive Function/Study Skills)
We offer Weekend Workshops and Individual Sessions during the school year for students in 4th through 9th grade.
Our extremely popular, success proven START SMART for School Success is offered every summer as a week long workshop in June and July.
Students with strong executive function skills are more likely to be successful in school.
START SMART for SCHOOL SUCCESS will motivate and prepare students for academic success while empowering them to become independent learners! START SMART teaches time management, organization, goal setting, and planning. Students explore individual learning styles and will practice successful study strategies for memory, test prep/test taking, homework completion, concentration/anxiety, note taking, reading textbooks, assistive technology and much more. At the end of the week, students will leave with a binder full of successful study strategies and tools to use throughout their school year.
Click on the Executive Function/Study Skills link above to learn more about this success proven workshop.
Beyond the ABC’s: Building Reading Skills
(Summer 2017 for students entering 1st and 2nd grade)
Does your child know their letters and can identify them out of order and knows most, if not all the sounds? Have they moved beyond letters to reading words but need reinforcement to boast their fluency, comprehension, and confidence? Or do you just want to prevent the “summer slide”? This camp is packed full of engaging activities and games that will build emerging readers phonemic awareness, practice word attack and decoding skills, sight words and strengthen comprehension skills.
Tricia is a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) receiving her training through Southern Methodist University and Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas. She is also a Licensed Dyslexia Therapist (Texas), and holds a Masters in Special Education from Louisiana Tech University. She has 30 years of proven success of helping students increase their skill base and reach their full potential and academic goals. She has taught in public and private schools while maintaining a private practice for students with dyslexia and related learning differences.
Tricia is an Executive Function/Study Skills Coach with a Masters in Sp. Ed. She developed her START SMART program and taught it in the public school system for 20 years, consistently updating START SMART to meet the current educational standards and needs of her students. START SMART has been offered as a summer enrichment program, helping hundreds of area students, since 1990. She adapts START SMART! for all type learners and schools for academic success.
Please contact Tricia@thelearningadvantage.com for more details or any questions.
