About Us

Rachel’s Reading Rescue tutoring is tailored to each individual student and Rachel thoroughly enjoys building a relationship with each student. Her strength is her creativity. She’s typically able to create a way to help a student in the moment, to make sense of something they are struggling with and give them a new way to remember it.

Running these programs in schools means she is providing staff training, so teachers will know what to look for in their students. Once flagged, she administers some assessments to be sure the student(s) meet the school’s benchmarks for tutoring, and then she matches each student with a volunteer for one to one tutoring. She also trains the volunteers, to be sure they have quality tutors providing this vital gift to each student. Since the schools are always short of volunteer tutors, she has also tutored many students during the school day. When a student can’t pass the Barton Student Screener, Rachel also provides pre-Barton tutoring in either Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) or Foundation in Sounds, until they are able to pass the Barton Student Screener and can then be handed off to a volunteer Barton tutor.  Early on, Rachel also began tutoring children privately after school hours. 

She has touched the lives of hundreds of other children through her assessing them and training and supporting/guiding other tutors to work with those students.

Over the years, Rachel has been trained to use LiPS, Foundation in Sounds, Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V), Institute for Excellence in Writing-Student Intensive (IEW), Handwriting Without Tears-Printing & Cursive, Wilson Reading Program, and various techniques to teach math to dyslexics in a way that is designed to be specifically helpful to them. She has attended related training sessions including Handwriting for Students who Struggle, Understanding Dyslexia & AD/HD, Diagnosing Dyslexia, Classroom Accommodations for AD/HD Students, AD/HD in Depth.

As a member of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), since 2006, Rachel has attended 7 of their reading conferences over the years.

In her private tutoring, Rachel has helped multiple children using the Barton Reading & Spelling System, LiPs, Foundation in Sounds, V/V, IEW, and what she calls “Math for Dyslexics”.
She has also done some tutoring in time management and
study skills. 

During her free time she enjoys creative endeavors such as cooking, sewing, drawing and crocheting, as well as reading mysteries and historical novels, and spending time with her family.