


Since 1971 REACH for Learning has worked successfully providing
comprehensive educational services to children and adults in the bay
area. During these thirty plus years we have developed a unique
environment and orientation to learning. We work closely with parents,
school personnel, and community services to provide optimal
understanding and growth potential for our clients.
At REACH we work with individuals who have difficulties in language
development, reading, written language, mathematics and organizational
skills. Some of our students have specific learning differences, some
are struggling to keep up or have fallen behind and need an extra boost
to get back on track. REACH provides full psycho-educational
assessment and academic screening; individual remediation, academic
support, and tutorial instruction. Our primary service is working
individually with students, a service which involves a combination of
mentoring, direct instruction, and educational therapy to challenge each
student and motivate them to reach their potential. We work to build
confidence and self-esteem to compliment the studies of each student.
In order to best meet the individual learning and subject area needs of
each of our students, members of our instructional staff have a wide
variety professional experience and training. Learning specialist
credentials and certificates held by staff members include those in
educational therapy, reading, resource, learning disabilities, and early
childhood. Specific subject instructors, with post-graduate studies,
including masters and doctorate degrees, specialize in the areas of
mathematics, science, writing, literature, foreign language, study skills
and test preparation. Our consortium of learning and content specialists
help us to reach out to serve the broad needs of students in our very
diverse community. Services are offered primarily at REACH for
Learning; services at other sites by special arrangement.
Each person processes information in a unique way. Most people
develop a preference for one of the three major channels through which
information is transmitted: sound sight, and touch. For some the
preference is so dominant that learning through one mode becomes
difficult although information can be processed quite well through
another.
Feelings of inadequacy and frustration can further inhibit learning.
People who have difficulty learning may have normal hearing, vision,
and intelligence, but need educational approaches that tap their channels
of strength and integrate their less efficient ones.
Our purpose is to identify, evaluate, and teach to their social and
academic potentials. Our goal is to assist people as they reach for
learning.
