Long Island University Reading Clinic Gets Kids into Books
Low-Priced Community Service Educational Programs Have Centers
in Nassau and Suffolk Counties

January 30, 2003 - What can parents do if their child has problems reading, but they can’t afford a $50-an-hour tutor or a costly commercial learning center?

Long Island University's Reading and Learning Development Center’s 30-year program turns struggling students into successful readers. The Reading and Learning Development Center, with programs on the C.W. Post and Brentwood campuses of Long Island University, 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.

The children are taught by reading or special education graduate students of Long Island University who are supervised by full-time faculty. 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 great 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 which authors she’s read."

The Center offers individual assessment and instruction for children in grades 2 through 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 in Brookville at 516-299-2207 or the Brentwood Campus at 631-273-5112.