Struggling in school with reading and math can cause heightened stress, frustration and low self-esteem in your child's life.
Help your child build confidence.
Help your child become proud of what they can do.
Help your child experience success and independence by giving them the tools they need to develop the core skills of reading, comprehension and math.
READING & PHONEMIC AWARENESS
- For kids struggling to learn how to read in school or sound out unknown words
- For kids that demonstrate inconsistencies or gaps in their reading ability (decoding simple words through multi-syllable words).
SPELLING & SYMBOL IMAGERY
- For kids struggling with spelling, sight words, or reading fluency.
COMPREHENSION & CONCEPT IMAGERY
- For kids struggling with understanding the meaning of a story, summarizing what they read/saw/heard, following multi-step directions or answering critical thinking questions such as "why?"
MATH
- For kids struggling with the basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
EXPRESSIVE WRITING & ORGANIZATION
- For kids that get stuck using simplistic sentences, struggle with organizing information for school reports or assignments or need support to improve their creative writing skills.
Each multi-sensory program is designed to meet your child's needs and address how your child learns. Education therapy unites effective therapeutic techniques such as relationship-centered approaches and sensory integration methods with research-based educational techniques adapted from training sessions attended with Lindamood-Bell® Learning Processes, Making Math Real Institute and Clinic, and additional cutting edge resources.
Please contact me to discuss your child's unique learning challenges and how I may be able to design a program around your child's specific needs that will help them become a competent, self-sufficient learner.
“Mikki is extremely talented working with children of varying abilities. She is creative in her teaching methods, has a positive attitude, and is highly effective in helping children learn. I highly recommend her! "
-Mary Jo (parent)
Creative
Learning
Solutions,
LLC
Mikki McCarville DeFever
Education Therapist
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"It broke my heart when I realized that the reason my 8 year old son could not read a word was because he was dyslexic, and I was desperate to find a way to help him. Mikki McCarville started to work with him as he entered 3rd grade and she was able to immediately tap into the specific things that interested him, in a way that made it so fun for him to see her each week that he would cry if he had to miss a session. He also said to me "I learn more with her than I do with all the people who work with me in my school, but I am having so much fun I don't even know that I'm learning.....it feels like I am just playing!" Mikki tailors the pace and the content of all that she does with my son in a way that keeps him evolving his reading skills in a brilliantly intuitive way. My son is actually learning to read now and it is making him so happy that he gets it, at last. Honestly, I owe every bit of this to the perfect mix of Mikki's teaching methodology and her fun personality. Thank you,
Mikki! "
-Robin (parent)
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***Disclaimer: LIPS® (Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing®) Seeing Stars®, and Visualizing and Verbalizing® are trademarks of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes (http:/www.Lindamoodbell.com). Creative Learning Solutions, LLC is not affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes and Making Math Real Institute and Clinic in no way guarantee the quality of the materials or services that may be supplied by Creative Learning Solutions, LLC.
"Mikki is one of the most gifted reading interventionists I have met. She understands that the key to success for children and youth who struggle with reading is motivation, accurate assessment and individualized intervention. She is a natural connector with children and youth of all abilities and temperaments. I would recommend Mikki to any family looking for effective strategies to improve their child's reading ability at all levels: phonemic awareness, decoding, comprehension and fluency."
-Beth Swedeen (Transition Specialist, Waisman Center)
