“Lauren has been working with our daughter who struggled with reading since kindergarten. We’ve had tutors in place, interventions at school but when we started with Lauren, it was the first time we truly saw progress that “stuck.”  Her teachers started asking what we were doing and wanted to get in touch with Lauren. After seeing the success our daughter had, we added our son to her roster. Lauren is warm, kind and friendly. She is punctual, organized and prepared.  Her planning is data driven and intentional. Our daughter has tested out of her school interventions but we will not be without Lauren as a part of our educational team. Her work is invaluable.”

-Parent of a Kindergarten and 3rd grade student

“I cannot express enough how thankful we are for your help. In such a short amount of time ‘J’ has made so much progress. But the biggest change is her attitude. She doesn’t say, “I have a bad brain” or “I can’t do it.” This is priceless to us! Thank you!”

— Parent of 1st grade student

“Ms. Lauren has been such a blessing to our family! Our daughter has both Dyslexia and ADHD. I knew Orton-Gillingham would be useful for her Dyslexia but had difficulty finding a provider who could work within the context of her ADHD. Ms. Lauren has gone above and beyond to make sure our daughter stays engaged and on-task during appointments. She took the time to find our daughters interests and has integrated those into their work together. Ms. Lauren is flexible and provides us as much feedback as we would like regarding our daughter’s progress. Her educational team at school has been so impressed with her improvement!”

— Parent of 2nd grade student

“When you couple a comprehensive, multisensory, and research-based approach to reading and writing instruction (Orton-Gillingham) with a very knowledgeable, educationally experienced, emotionally intelligent, authentic, and highly effective professional instructor like Lauren Walsh, you get a fruitful, child-centered, and incredibly productive academic growth experience for your child.  As an educator and school psychologist for over 26-years, I can attest to the power and educationally sound, systematic, and targeted approach of the Orton-Gillingham method of reading and writing instruction.  The method of instruction is personalized, prescriptive to your child’s needs, and provides continuous feedback and positive reinforcement, which builds your child’s confidence and sense of accomplishment as their linguistic, phonological, and orthographic processing skills steadily improve over time.  Due to the fact that dyslexia and other learning disabilities can often be comorbid with other struggles such as AD/HD, Lauren’s ability to establish and maintain a close relationship with your child, understand their behavioral needs and signals, and build breaks, encouragement, reinforcement, and fun learning activities into her instructional approach, promotes maximum student engagement, effort, and motivation to succeed.  Lauren is flexible, child-centered, and highly professional in her relational and instructional endeavors, and she exhibits the determination, intelligence, sensitivity, knowledge, flexibility, and compassion to make an incredible difference in the lives of children and families.  As a school psychologist and most importantly a parent of a child with learning and executive functioning needs, I am confident that Lauren will make a wonderful difference in the life of your child, become an extremely valuable resource for your family, and become an integral part of your child’s future success.”

-Parent of 6th grade student