Academic Language Therapy (ALT) is a proven approach to help students learn to read by capitalizing on their strengths while providing individualized, structured instruction tailored to meet their learning needs. ALT is a systematic, multisensory, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Students are instructed by specially trained, nationally certified Academic Language Therapists using Basic Language Skills, an Orton-Gillingham based curriculum, with focused instruction in phonemic awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, handwriting, vocabulary, and oral and written expression. Students may additionally work with Latin and Greek roots, advanced vocabulary, and metacognitive strategies for reading and writing. 

Academic Language Therapy sessions are typically one hour in length. Sessions are a minimum of twice weekly and based on a 9-week or semester schedule. The rate is $120 per hour-long session. Please note that we are operating on a waitlist for after-school ALT placements at this time. 

Ask us about our ALT Lab Program to work with a tutor in-training. Contact us at tutoring@rawsonsaunders.org for rates and information. 

Most children entering Kindergarten have had practice with rhyming and other wordplay activities. Many have even begun to learn letter names and sounds. For children who have had opportunities to engage in this learning and are not catching on, early intervention is critical. In our Early Literacy sessions, we provide structured activities that promote the foundational skills for reading. Children interact auditorily with the words, syllables, and sounds of our language; they learn to name and sequence the letters of the alphabet, and they build oral language skills through unit studies. Once these foundational skills are intact, children are ready to benefit from direct, explicit, and systematic reading instruction. 

Early Literacy sessions are typically one hour in length. Sessions are a minimum of once weekly and based on a 9-week or semester schedule. The rate is $120 per hour-long session.

Executive Functioning has been described as the conductor of the brain’s orchestra (Brown, 2005), and it coordinates the cognitive skills students need to be successful at school. These skills develop from birth through early adulthood. Many students are still developing the EF skills necessary to manage today’s demands of rigorous curricula and overloaded schedules. Whether students need to develop skills for organizing their time and materials, goal-setting and prioritizing, or taking notes in and out of class, our executive coaches provide explicit instructions through effective, repeatable strategies to help students be more successful in their academic and home settings. 

Executive Coaching sessions are typically one hour in length. Sessions are a minimum of once weekly and based on a 9-week or semester schedule. The rate is $120 per hour-long session.

Our multisensory math instruction emphasizes deep conceptual understanding. Our math tutors are specially trained in multisensory mathematics and have a background in the Singapore Math approach. Some of the key features of the approach include the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) progression, number bonds, bar modeling, and mental math. In the CPA progressions, concepts are first introduced at the concrete level with manipulatives, then expanded upon with pictorial representations, and ultimately problems are solved at the abstract level. Instead of pushing through rote memorization, students learn to think mathematically and rely on the depth of knowledge gained in previous lessons.

Math tutoring sessions are typically one hour in length. Sessions are a minimum of once weekly and based on a 9-week or semester schedule. The rate is $120 per hour-long session.

Writing, the most difficult of all literacy tasks, can be extremely challenging for students with language-based disorders like dyslexia and dysgraphia. Writing tutoring services are tailored to each student’s individual needs and can include work on handwriting, spelling, and/or composition. Students working on written composition learn to employ a process to generate, organize, compose, revise and edit well-structured sentences and paragraphs for a variety of narrative and expository formats. 

Writing tutoring sessions are typically one hour in length. Sessions are a minimum of once weekly and based on a 9-week or semester schedule. The rate is $120 per hour-long session.