Long Island University's Reading and Learning Development Center's 30-year program turns struggling students into successful readers. The Reading Clinic, housed on the C.W. Post and Brentwood campuses, offers tutoring for the reasonable fee of only $10 an hour. "It's the best value in town," said Karen Lind, Director of the Learning Center.

Taught by reading or special education graduate students of Long Island University who are supervised by full-time faculty, the center has about a 85-90% success rate. New pupils are first given a diagnostic test that measures their reading, language, spelling and writing skills. "Every child is dealt with as an individual, worked with one-to-one and assessed accordingly for their learning needs," said Lind.

Students not only practice their reading skills but they receive instruction in phonics, prefixes, suffixes and roots as well. "C.W. Post really gave them a good foundation," said one mother who had two children in the program. "If you saw my daughter with her little stack of books now, you would never believe she ever had problems. Now when we go to Borders she tells the salespeople what authors she's read."

The Center offers tutoring for children, grades 2-12, who struggle with reading, understanding words or whose grades are falling. The Center offers a twice weekly, semester-long learning environment that continually updates parents on student progress. Applications are currently being accepted for the program.

For additional information call the Reading and Learning Development Center at the C.W. Post Campus at 516-299-2207 or the Brentwood Campus at 631-273-5112.