The Reading Clinic uses state-of- the-art practices in teaching reading to students with reading disabilities or other students with disabilities who are delayed readers.
The Reading Clinic uses state-of- the-art practices in teaching reading to students with reading disabilities or other students with disabilities who are delayed readers.
Need: One in five children has difficulty learning to read. Reading failure begins in kindergarten and is difficult to remediate beyond third grade, which argues for intervening early and intensively to correct reading failure.
Purpose: To provide intensive, individualized, one-to-one tutoring using assessment and instructional methods proven by research to promote reading; serving primarily children in early elementary grades.
Innovations: Emphasis is on treatment. An ongoing assessment of how the student is doing session to session, week to week informs everyone—tutor, student, parent—of progress, and instructional program changes as needed.
Description: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will tutor. Students are tutored for 60 minutes, 2 times a week (4 during summer). All students are evaluated to determine specific reading needs. Ambitious but realistic goals are determined for the tutoring period.
Where: Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center, 1810 Edgehill Avenue
Faculty Directors: Doug Fuchs, Ph.D., and Lynn Fuchs, Ph.D., Professors of Special Education, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigators, and recipients of the 2003 Council for Exceptional Children Special Education Research Award.
Contact: Caresa Young , Reading Clinic Coordinator, 615-936-5123.
Financial- need scholarships are available for the Reading Clinic. For more information, contact Caresa Young.