Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Reading and Learning Assessment Clinic

2023

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. The Reading Clinic provides intensive, individualized, one-to-one tutoring using assessment and instructional methods proven by research to promote reading and serves primarily children in early elementary grades. 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. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students serve as tutors. Students are tutored for 45 minutes, 2 or 3 times a week. All students are evaluated to determine specific reading needs. Ambitious but realistic goals are determined for the tutoring period. The Learning Assessment Clinic provides academic assessments for students ages 5-25 who have learning challenges. The goal of the academic assessment is to help families understand their childs unique pattern of abilities across an array of skills including motor coordination, handwriting, reading, listening, verbal and visual learning, planning, use of strategies, and working memory. The assessment also is appropriate for college students who need test accommodations or are trying to understand the ways they learn best.

Reading, Elementary School, Evidence Based intervention, Individualized

Training Trainees, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information

Education & Early Intervention

Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances

Mulit-County

Yes