The Advantage Edge
Advantage Tutoring creates independent readers, spellers, writers and thinkers by giving them the multi-sensory tools necessary to "learn how to learn."
Our one-on-one, hourly sessions stimulate three skills vital for language processing:
Phonemic awareness - the ability to identify and order sounds within words. Symptoms of weak phonemic awareness include errors in reading ("steam" for stream), spelling ("gril" for girl) and pronunciation ("death" for deaf, "pacific" for specific).
Concept imagery - the ability to see the "big picture" when reading and listening. Persons with weak concept imagery have difficulty with reading comprehension, critical thinking and following directions.
Symbol imagery - the ability to visualize letters within words. Weaknesses here can result in trouble with spelling, word recognition, contextual fluency and mathematics.
OUR PROGRAMS
Lindamood Interactive Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS). This sequential, multi-sensory program teaches students to identify separate sound segments within words. There is particular emphasis on the vowel segments and mouth movements to help with reading and spelling.
Visualizing and Verbalizing This unique method teaches students to broaden the visual imagery of their language. By incorporating these visualization strategies, the student expands the richness and detail of oral and written language, as well as the ability to comprehend what they've read.
"Seeing Stars" Symbol Imagery This program teaches students to form visual images of individual phonemes (t-o) through multisyllable words (t-o-m-o-r-r-o-w), enhancing development of spelling, reading and sight word vocabulary.
"On Cloud Nine" Mathematics This hands-on program hones competency in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students touch, feel, write and visualize concepts as they move from concrete to abstract math realities.
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