1,397 Wellesley Special Needs Tutors

...I have a special expertise in helping middle and high school students with expository writing and I have developed a fairly extensive curriculum to help them build the writing skills that they will need in college. I can work on a short or long term basis. I am an alumna of Wellesley College where I earned a B.A. in Cognitive Science. Note for parents... read more

...I am a Level 1 certified Wilson Language training tutor and have done graduate level research on dyslexia and the teaching of reading. I am also familiar with various Lindamood-Bell programs. I have worked with students of all ages for whom English is a second language for 20 years. I am also very familiar with the techniques for success on standardized... read more

...I'm a trained Reading Recovery teacher, an proven approach to helping readers learn to decode texts while still attending to meaning (unlike other purely phonics-based approaches). I am also familiar with the readers' and writers' workshop approach for helping older children learn comprehension strategies. I worked as a literacy coach training other... read more

...I have a full range of organizational strategies which often help general study skills after all you cannot study what you cannot find. Work in special education has taught me many more study skills than I had learned in preparations to become a teacher. Index cards, research methods, various note taking skills, and mental mapping are only a few... read more

...The only way to succeed academically is to begin studying for exams in advance without relying on cramming, and to attack any problem one may encounter in a subject as it comes up in class and in homework. Waiting to the last minute or allowing notes and problems to become disorganized is a recipe for disaster. I currently work in a special needs... read more