Welcome!
We offer comprehensive assessments to identify your child’s academic needs in order to diagnose language-based learning disabilities. Following the assessment, we provide personalized consultations to discuss results and recommend individualized evidence-based interventions, accommodations and strategies.
The Process
Our process begins with a comprehensive assessment to determine your child’s needs. Performing standardized assessments will allow our speech/language pathologists and reading specialists to establish baselines in areas such as phonological processing, reading rate, accuracy and comprehension, spelling, mathematics and written expression. This will determine if there is a language-based learning disability such as dyslexia (reading disorder), dysgraphia (disorder of written expression) or dyscalculia (mathematics disorder).
Evidence Based Interventions
Articulation
Disorder
Auditory
Therapies
Mathematics
Reading
Interventions
About Our Foundress
Cathy Johnson, a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist since 1991, holds a BA and MA in Communication Disorders with a minor in Child Development, as well as a special day class credential. Initially focused on treating young children with speech and language disorders, Cathy expanded her practice to include reading disorders when her early clients sought her help again. Her dedication deepened when her own daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia, igniting a passion to help children of all ages using evidence-based approaches.
Cathy conducts expert individual evaluations and consults as a dyslexia specialist for numerous school districts. She served as board member of the International Dyslexia Association’s Tri-Counties branch and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne. Cathy and the leadership team at the Center for Neurodiversity at ULV used the science of reading to create an evidenced-based reading intervention using the Orton-Gillingham methodology. This methodology has transformed the way that reading intervention is delivered to students as it is highly individualized allowing for the best possible outcome for each student.