Shannon Jenkins Learning
Your Child’s School May Not Understand How Your Child Processes Language Comprehension and Thinking
For hyperlexic students reading is a fluent process, but not fluently understood. Traditionally, it is harder for instructors to help create meaning to these words and awaken a connection to what is read.
Without lesson plans that help create the ability to form crucial connections and concepts around reading, hyperlexic children often maintain a poor vocabulary - limiting their ability to connect to others, express themselves or develop opportunities.
Tutoring That Helps Your Child Share Themselves with the World.
Hyperlexia is a filter to the world and not a limitation. Through Visualizing and Verbalizing® tutoring your child will begin to understand concepts behind reading and begin to touch deeper parts of themselves - parts that they can share with the world and with themselves.
Here, we develop concept imagery, or the ability to form an image-based concept from language - serving as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking. The development of concept imagery improves reading and listening comprehension, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.
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
Shared Successes
KARRA
My son was around 9 when we met Shannon. She was affiliated with LindaMoodBell® learning style and we were looking for someone with patience, thoughtfulness and a different style of teaching, as my son had a learning disability. Admittedly, the details of his experience have been lost in time (he’s now 29) but the effects of what he gained from working with her cannot be understated. He’s developed the comprehension skills she helped impress onto him, and these skills have helped him graduate from college on the Dean’s list.
3 Steps to Creating Concept Imagery
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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 allow them to form crucial connections to reading and within themselves.
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CUSTOM LEARN IN A WAY THAT WORKS
We approach creating concepts by helping your child develop connections to imagery from language. Each student will be guided through 20 sessions for developmental progress in a way that works for them.
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SHARE THEIR WORLD
Your child will begin to deepen their understanding of themselves and their world through language - providing them increased opportunities to share more of who they are and further enrich their lives and those around them.
Turning Reading to a World of Comprehension
Your child can develop more depth of awareness and expression in a way that will allow them to connect to their own brightness, and gifted warmth. As a student it is also crucial for them to form connections to language and reading that will help them stay on track, and not apart from their peers.
Most school systems have curriculums that are not suited for divergent learning or hyperlexia in particular. By using Visualizing and Verbalizing® approaches for over two decades, I have helped hundreds of students that have exhibited hyperlexic traits develop their own expression and autonomy - with methods to create their own sense of the world around and within them.
