Ms. Dickens is a Certified Structured Literacy Dyslexia Therapist and a licensed veteran teacher of over twenty years. Ms. Dickens earned her Master’s Degree in Teaching, with a reading endorsement, she went on to enjoy years of classroom teaching.
Her passion as an academic therapist came from feeling frustrated with not being able to fully engage those students whose reading challenges were beyond her scope of work. In order to find a remedy, she went above and beyond her line of duty as a classroom teacher to pursue powerful and effective strategies to be able to help those struggling readers as well as those struggling in math. Because she is an avid reader and ardent student, she learned how to effectively teach elementary math and reading using the same tried and true Orton Gillingham methodology.
She has over 1,000 certified one-on-one documented hours working with struggling readers as well as children diagnosed with dyslexia. She is now networked with local psychologists in order to provide services to a diverse population of students.
She enjoys storytelling, hiking, trips to the mountains, exercising, and most of all, time spent with her family.
