Our Team
We teach children in a way that works for their brains. Our team is highly trained and experienced in teaching using the Orton-Gillingham approach and similar programs using multisensory, explicit, systematic instruction.
Our Mission
Steamboat Reading creates a community of support for struggling readers and their families through one-on-one tutoring, formal evaluations, advocacy, parent education, and dyslexia awareness.
FACTS
Struggling readers and writers are often multi-dimensional, out-of-the-box thinkers who are highly creative and successful in many areas including arts, music, finance, mathematics, design, and engineering.
20%
OF THE U.S. POPULATION
is dyslexic, which makes it the most common learning challenge.
100%
STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA CAN LEARN TO READ
when instruction is explicit and systematic, multisensory, consistent and frequent, language-based, individualized and emotionally reinforcing.
80%
OF THE U.S POPULATION
doesn’t know that dyslexia occurs in people of all intellectual levels.
Our Services
Steamboat Reading provides support with reading, writing, math, and self-advocacy skills by offering a variety of services. Please contact our office for a free phone consultation to create a customized plan.
TUTORING
We offer one-on-one instruction. Each tutoring session includes attention to each child's unique strengths and challenges, development of skills and confidence, guidance to achieve reasonable, yet ambitious, goals, individualized at-home activities and support for parents.
ADVOCACY
We help you to understand and navigate the IEP, 504, or READ plan process at your school. We can advocate by explaining the testing that your child has completed, determining appropriate services and supports for your child, and helping to understand the school's plan.
ASSESSMENT
We offer a comprehensive evaluation, a literacy evaluation, and instructional assessments. Assessments vary in the information they provide and the duration of evaluation time. These assessment sessions are used to evaluate your child’s skills and determine what kinds of support would benefit your child. You receive a written report and oral interpretation of the results.
PARENT RESOURCE GROUP
This was created to support and provide education for parents of children with learning differences. A learning difference can be something diagnosed, like dyslexia, dysgraphia, or ADHD, or something that causes a challenge for a child to learn.
“No matter how much we ‘practiced’ or how much we read to him, our child was not able to catch on and learn. Steamboat Reading figured out how he learned best.”
-Parent of a 4th Grader
Power of Knowing
Evaluations remove the stress that comes with uncertainty and replaces it with results. By knowing the skills your child is struggling with and areas of strength, we can explain and implement different supports and interventions that are best for your child.