February 2, 2011
To Whom It May Concern:
We have been using our Tutor Doctor for our 6-year old son for about 6 months. He was behind in school throughout kindergarten and into 1st grade. I noticed in kindergarten that something wasn’t clicking and he wasn’t making the connection between letters, their sounds, and combining them into words. He became very frustrated because he was trying so hard and just couldn’t get it. Not being educators, we had no idea how to help him and when we brought it up to his teachers, they did not have a lot of suggestions.
Allison came out to our home and evaluated our son. She determined that he was having a difficult time learning when information was presented in a purely auditory fashion, as is usually done in a classroom. She suggested a tutor that she felt would mesh with his personality who could teach him in a way that would involve visual and tactile cues.
Our tutor came to our home and hit it off with our son. Brigid employed the use of tri-colored dice to help our son to sound out words. At the end of the first session, he was reading simple Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words! I was in the next room and after I heard him reading a few words, I had to come in. I couldn’t believe it – it was literally like a key had unlocked whatever was in his brain and it suddenly made sense to him. I swear I am not lying when I say that I had tears in my eyes.
Homework has gone from being an anger-filled hour long process to 15 minutes of quiet time together. He no longer whines in the morning that he doesn’t want to go to school. When he is in the classroom and being taught something new, he is able to refer back to the methods he learned from his tutor. We are now at the point where he is caught up and our tutor is preparing him for what is to come.
Brigid came to our parent teacher conference so she could be on the same page and she along with Allison have been extremely helpful while we are wading through the Special Ed/IEP process. We could not be happier or more grateful for the help we’ve received. I would recommend Tutor Doctor to anyone who has a child who is struggling in school.
I would be happy to speak with anyone to discuss this further.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Boyle
Newfields, NH
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