Hi! I’m here to help!
Sara is highly experienced in teaching students and parents with learning differences, disabilities & ADHD how to grow skills and feel good learning. She is experienced with many multi-sensory, sequential, cumulative, evidence based approaches.
Educational Background
- Masters in Special Education, Mild to Moderate Learning Disabilities from Santa Clara University
- B.A from Northwestern University
Key Expertise
- Making Math Real with David Berg, Kindergarten through Algebra
- Structured Word Inquiry (Advanced MSLE)
- Orton Gillingham
- Slingerland at Charles Armstrong School
- Lindamood Bell Clinician– Visualizing & Verbalizing, LIPS, Seeing Stars, On Cloud Nine
- All Kinds of Minds (Schools Attuned) at Children’s Health Council
- Learning Without Tears
Additional Evidence Based Approaches
- Get Ready Do Done, Time Tracker Program, Anxiety & Executive Function, Written Expression, 360 Thinking Model through Cognitive Connections
- Story Grammar Marker
- Step Up to Writing
- Project Read: Framing Your Thoughts & Report Form Comprehension
- Linking Blocks: Hands-on-English
- The Alert Self Regulation Program
- The Zones of Regulation
- Social Thinking
- YouCue Feelings through Social Time
- The Collaborative & Proactive Solutions Approach
- and more!
Sara is not directly associated or affiliated with any of the above approaches.
Sara is a professional member of the Association of Educational Therapists, and a member of the International Dyslexia Association.
Passion
She loves sharing her joy of learning and teaching students who are struggling how to make learning fun and feel good.
Hope & Optimism
Every student has their own unique gifts, strengths, and interests! Sara helps her students understand their learning diagnosis whether it be Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Dysgraphia, ADHD or something else, and grow with it to build specific skills.
Values
Sara is committed to making learning less complicated, laughing, celebrating the good things, and embracing who we already are. As a mom, Sara also understands our learning hopes & struggles from a parent’s perspective! Let’s have fun learning together!