My daughter has been working with "Miss Stacy" since September of 2019. She can be an anxious child who does not do well with transitions, but she took to Miss Stacy immediately. She loves her tutor sessions and is always asking if "it's a Miss Stacy Day." For the first time she is excited to read. Her new found confidence and enthusiasm for reading is nothing short of a miracle! Stacy is kind, loving, patient and fun. We are so happy and grateful to have found her.

Kim H. - mother of current student

I was taught in Academic Language Therapy (ALT) by Ms. Clark for three years and found it to help me not only in school but in life. I was diagnosed with profound dyslexia when I was in preschool and started ALT when I was in kindergarten. This early intervention was very vital to my success in learning how to read and write. The traditional school did not teach me the way I learn and there are many striking differences between the two ways of teaching. I found my experience with ALT to be more fun, goal-oriented, multisensory, and a thorough program of teaching reading and writing. One of my favorite parts of ALT is how you move through the 10 goals and I get to visually see it and move it. I remember loving to move my clip down the session schedule and seeing my progress which motivated me. When learning new letter, words, or concepts I would use all my senses to learn and also discovered a lot of the concepts on my own by the way Ms. Clark guided her questions. It meant more to me because I figured out the "why" for a lot of the concepts. I would learn the letters or concepts by feeling, saying and hearing. We would “skywrite” to connect muscle memory to the sound and visual name of the letter or concept. A lot of the spelling and grammar rules stuck with me because it was often taught in a story or unique way where my brain easily retained it. I didn't have to memorize. I found all the decks we used for letters, sound to symbols, suffixes, prefixes and many more were helpful for me learning how to read because of the repetitions done in each session during that part of our session schedule. This helped me feel confident because we would add more gradually and build systematically creating a strong foundation for learning how to read, spell and write. After three years of ALT, I started at a new school where they used Wilson. While I found it helpful, I did not find it as thorough as ALT. When learning a new word I felt like I was learning in only one sensory way, not in a multisensory way. Being profoundly dyslexic, I feel ALT was a better way for me on learning how to read and write. Today, I’m a straight-A student, much in part of my work with Academic Language Therapy. I’m grateful for the program and how it taught me the way I learn.

Jake C. - Former student

"As he ventures out into the big old world today for an interview I can't help but have you on my mind! Thank you again for all the love, compassion and confidence you gave to my boy. You will never know how much you impacted his life."

Dana M. - note received from mother of former student