Guidepost Educational Services

Reading Support

We are a team of Reading Specialists trained in Reading Recovery-Behind the Glass, Early Intervention Strategies, PALS, Focus, Project Read- Phonics and Reading Comprehension, Saxon Phonics, and many more.

Our specialist will:

• Work together with you to determine individual goals for your child in explicit and implicit reading recovery strategies

• Work with other educators and therapists in-clinic to achieve educational goals faster

• Apply appropriate interventions to help your child with reading decoding

• Conduct a dynamic evaluations with assessment tools to ensure a progress plan tailored to the needs of your individual child uses state of the art research based evaluation tools like AimsWeb.

• Teach and support parental tools so that you may help your child

• Design session notes shared between specialist and parent, intervention strategies to use at home

• Teach explicit & multi-sensory phonics instruction to learn sounds & syllables, instruction in morphology & etymology

• Teach phonemic & phonological awareness using poetry and other creative strategies

• Instruct one on one sessions using decodable text that will increase your child’s reading confidence

• Teach reading comprehension strategies that increase reading levels

• Utilize decodable texts to scaffold to success

• Teach fluency strategies with Read Naturally techniques

• Teach vocabulary building skills with BreakThrough to Literacy

Math Support

• One-on-One Teacher/Student Support and Direct Instruction from Math Specialists

• Dysgraphia Testing Packages

• Tools from Art of the Problem and MathCounts

• Time4Learning Math Intervention

• Intervention Strategies for Math Success

• We explicitly teach connections from concept to concrete

• Word Problem Think Aloud Strategy

• Visual strategies to teach or demonstrate how to solve math problems

• Explanation of how specific math concepts apply to real life

• We do not emphasize “busywork” or excessive review, we utilize visual aids that help with memory work

• We use multi-sensory game play to motivate and increase retention

Dyslexia Support and Testing

Your child may have dyslexia if you notice any of the following:

• difficulty with reading comprehension

• difficulty decoding words

• poor memory

• difficulty with spelling

• difficulty with expressive language

• poor handwriting

• difficulty with math facts and operations

• average to high level of intelligence

• gifted in other areas

Our reading and occupational health specialists will work hand in hand with your child to determine if your child has dyslexia. If diagnosed, our specialists will work with you and your child on dyslexia intervention techniques and strategies that lead to reading success. Each skill is implicitly taught as to make decoding easier. Using decidable texts, your student will scaffold to reading success. At Guidepost, we use a five step approach to comprehension dyslexia testing, assuring you get the most out of the process.

• Dyslexia Interventions

  • We use a structured approach that provides extensive practice using controlled decodable texts.

  • We use multi-sensory methods to explicitly teach new content.

    • Highlight tape

    • Touch and Feel Spelling

    • color coding & highlighting

    • using movement to improve memory and engage different parts of the brain.

    • using songs and music to improve memory and engage different parts of the brain

    • textured writing

    • learning games to improve spelling and move different parts of the brain

  • We work on phonemic awareness.

  • We teach spelling patterns and syllables.

  • We provide a tracking aide and tools to monitor progress.

Additional Educational Support including Gifted Education Programs

Depending on your child’s needs, our educational and therapy support staff are here to help. Every child is unique and our staff is here to serve whether you need intervention or ongoing support.

• Latin I Classes, Minimus Secunda curricula from Cambridge University

• William and Mary’s Literacy gifted education programs in poetry, creative writing and reading

• Art of the Problem MathCounts After School Programs

• Resources for parents of gifted children