Shannon Jenkins Learning
The Nature of Traditional School Systems Can Cause Classically Dyslexic Students to Fall Behind
Traditional school systems may not be resourceful in helping your child learn reading and spelling through their classic dyslexia. Often, classically dyslexic children remain frustrated, trying to fit their own learning styles to those that school boards say are standard while distancing themselves from peers and school work as a way to copy with a perception of having failed.
Without new ways of learning how to read and spell, your student may continue to think it’s them - spending way more time, frustration and self-confidence on a standard that is truly someone else’s.
How Dyslexic Students Draw Connections in Reading and Spelling
Your child deserves the ability to truly see themselves, outside of an arbitrary standard, but rather supported by learning styles catered to their particular style of comprehension.
Seeing Stars® programs help build symbol imagery and lets dyslexic readers maintain meaningful connections to sight words in reading and spelling. By developing symbol imagery for your child through Seeing Stars™, your student will begin to read on their own while increasing their feeling of self-confidence in their ability to not only read and spell, but keep up in school with peers.
As an established Lindamood-Bell tutor and lesson plan specialist, you and your student will benefit from direct instruction, insights and support.
Stabilized Learning
No less than two sessions a week to help guarantee your child’s improvement - validated by over 23 years of experience.
Autonomous Attention
Individual Attention with custom pacing and techniques fit for your child.
Caregiver Updates
Monthly 30min meetings (included) to parents and caregivers, helping influence their child toward greater results in and out of the home, in ways that are most effective for them.
Your Tutor.
A Guide to Your Child’s Success
Shannon Jenkins, Tutor and Lesson Plan Specialist for Neurodivergent Learners
When it comes to education for neurodivergent learners, reading comprehension is just the beginning. For many, self-regulation and identity are common concerns when it comes to helping guide to their potential.
At the age of twelve, I had a major identity shift from ‘normal’ to disabled after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer). The sudden experience of being an amputee, learning to walk again, advocating for myself, and being differently-abled, or "adaptive," deeply informs this educational style.
Your child’s success in life depends on adapting to approaches that fit them, not the standard. Through our work together, each student can reach the type of autonomy necessary for them. They just need a different approach - one that works for them - with more adaptive styles that help them achieve their true capabilities without victimization, separation or feeling different.
Since 1999 I have worked with countless neurodivergent learners, from my time as a Tutor and Lesson Plan Developer with Lindamood-Bell® Learning Processes and clinics on the west and east coast.
Working in their Washington, D.C. and Berkeley, CA clinics for four years, I learned, intimately, the foundations of the successful techniques being employed to help claim the potential of individuals throughout the world. From there, I worked as a tutor, lesson plan developer, and trainer. In 2003, I had the amazing opportunity to run a private practice inside (the prestigious) The Listening Center in Walnut Creek, CA.
By working together I bring 23 years of experience working with children and families and I have also been trained in multiple processes, models and techniques
Make Lifelong Connections to Language
Having classical dyslexia, means your child takes in information differently. Through three steps, they’ll be able to learn the technique that finally allows them to make crucial lifelong connections to language.
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BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Click below to book a free initial consultation. We’ll get to know the approach that works best for your child, in a way that will increase meaningful connection to sight words, reading and spelling.
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CUSTOM LEARN IN A WAY THAT WORKS
Your child will learn from a plan that is custom to them, not someone else’s standard. Through tutoring they’ll find new ways to develop, using the established insights of Seeing Stars® as a foundation for growth.
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A CONFIDENT LEARNER
Your student will begin to draw connections, not only to words, reading and spelling, but to their ability to gain autonomy and confidence in and out of the classroom.
Helping Students Get Caught Up to Their Age Group and In Touch with Their Potential
As the guardian of a classically dyslexic student that is struggling to learn to read, you’d likely love to see your child as an enthusiastic student that enjoys sparking their imagination through reading while feeling more confident in their ability to interface and keep up with peers.
You’d enjoy seeing your student read and spell fluently, with meaning, feeling confident and accepted by peers and the world around them - while using reading as a tool for their growth, expansion and discovery.
Yet, the traditional school system does not have the resources or full understanding to help your child learn how to read in a way that suits them and the filter that dyslexia is.
With over 20 years as a Lindamood-Bell® lesson planner and instructor, with direct experience under the Lindamood-Bell® institution, I’ve helped countless young students better understand their own ways of reading, spelling and opening toward the potential inside themselves to read, understand and feel more acclimated to the world around them.
