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  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Emily Matles ★★★★★ a week ago
    We would highly recommend Ally! Our son always asks about her, so very thankful to Brooklyn Letters for introducing us.
    ~ Emily, mom of Brooklyn 2 year old
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters T Ainsley ★★★★★ 5 months ago
    I cannot express how grateful and rewarding my experience with Brooklyn Letters has been. Her tutor Ms. Daria is so knowledgeable, amazing, kind and awesome. My daughter has made so much progress in Literacy and Math and it's all … More thanks to Ms. Daria. I know my daughter is sad that she can no longer work with Ms. Daria, as she looked forward to their sessions every week. Thank you again!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Natalie Levon ★★★★★ 4 months ago
    Nicole has been an amazing therapist!! She played a tremendous role in our daughter’s speech progress and overall development. She has come such a long way and we are so happy with the therapy she received!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Colin Peters ★★★★★ 6 months ago
    We could not be happier with the services Valerie provided! She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable and provided significant guidance to support our daughter's speech development outside of our scheduled sessions. She established … More a great working relationship with her, and she will definitely be missed! Your business model is amazing and it was an absolute pleasure working with Valerie. I've referred your organization and Valerie to the Executive Director of our daughter's school and friends/colleagues who are in need of speech therapy services.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Lil Amatore ★★★★★ 7 months ago
    Christina was absolutely wonderful. She went out of her way to win my son over and it worked. He looked forward to her visits and his speech improved so much under her care. She was super flexible and it’s clear she truly cares. We adore … More Christina and we’re going to miss her. Almost sad he improved so much! She’s simply amazing and we can’t say enough how great she is. I would recommend her services to anyone and everyone, without hesitation. Thank you so much for connecting us with her!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Heather Liljengren ★★★★★ a year ago
    We cannot say enough good things about Effie, the ASL teacher, who was so engaged and effective with our 2 year old daughter from the very first session! Effie gladly included our whole family in the sessions! Her expertise and fantastic … More personality gave our daughter a way to communicate that she was so desperately seeking. The coordinators at Brooklyn Letters were so helpful and communicative…I would highly recommend their services!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Brigid Bower ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Samantha Dalmas was fantastic! We saw her for a feeding therapy evaluation and while she doesn’t think my daughter needs more feeding therapy sessions at this time, but she gave me lots of tips to try. If my daughter's doctors want … More to see more progress at her next appointment, I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Samantha again.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Duygu Başaran ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Brooklyn Letters was recommended to me through a friend's speech therapist friend in NJ. The articulation evaluation for my daughter went well. We were pleased with Kristin's services.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Kelley Peters-Patel ★★★★★ a year ago
    Melissa was wonderful. Our daughter warmed to her immediately and by the time she left, had already started "practicing" some of the techniques Melissa had shown her. I will not hesitate at all to reach out to Melissa again, should … More the need arise.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters R Elmore ★★★★★ a year ago
    Aileen was INCREDIBLY helpful to us, both in assessing possible origins of my grandson's food aversions, as well as informing us of various available interventions to consider.
    I can’t thank you and Brooklyn Letters enough for connecting
    … More us with Aileen. In all our feeding therapy journey we have not gotten anything near the kind of benefit that we did from her. Her knowledge, professionalism, and responsiveness have put us on the path of progress with my grandson and has also made us feel genuinely well cared for.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Christine Weiher ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    We were amazed with Allison! She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. … More I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Andrea Saffady ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    My sessions with Karen have been extremely helpful. My speech has improved tremendously. In fact, I just finished 2 hours of conducting interviews with a consulting client via MS Teams and I have an upcoming conference call. Both my … More neurologist and neurosurgeon remarked about how good my speech is. Much of the day it is perfect, although I still have some rough spots when I get tired or speak too quickly. One of my granddaughters is a speech pathology student at Ithaca College. She sat in on 2 sessions while she was home for winter break, and she was very impressed with Karen.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Jacob B ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were delighted with Christie. First, and most importantly, our son made great strides under her guidance. So great, that we felt he no longer needed help! She was incredibly patient and kind with him and our son really responded to … More her. Christie was also great with me and my wife. She provided thorough and informative updates on our son's progress and which exercises she was using with him, so we could reinforce what she was teaching him. All in all, we had a fabulous experience with Christie and would highly recommend her.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Jessica C ★★★★★ a year ago
    Theo was wonderful and his work with my son has produced some progress. I am grateful for the services Theo provided.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Melissa Stevens ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Highly recommend Jill. She is a total pleasure to work with. After a few months working with Jill, my son is reading above grade level and LOVES to read. Mission accomplished!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Demet Evren ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Paige was great and we had been really happy with her. I would highly recommend her! I recommend Brooklyn Letters to whomever asks for a speech therapist.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Jeizel Rosenthal ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Isabel was WONDERFUL and our son absolutely adored her, and he is making great progress with his reading and writing.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Lesley Duval ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Theo was fantastic with our 4yo son. We were very worried that his progress would fall off when we had to switch to remote sessions, but Theo kept our son happy and engaged through the screen. Highly highly recommend!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Samantha Packard ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    We've been working with Theo from Brooklyn Letters for close to 4 months now and the results are apparent; our daughter has vastly improved her speech in a relatively short amount of time. We make "Theo Day" a celebration … More in our house with pancakes for breakfast, and the enthusiasm is matched in the sessions. Theo is fun, patient, professional, and caring, and he gives us the tools to take the lessons beyond the session. Thank you Theo, and Brooklyn Letters, for helping our daughter express herself.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Travis Ricca ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    I worked with Alina to enhance my pronunciation, tone, and pacing while communicating socially and in a work environment. She was great to work with and clear about goals and learning objectives. The improvement from day 1 has been tremendous! … More
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Enrico Bermudez ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Cathy has been excellent with us and our son. We will sorely miss her. He has improved significantly with Cathy’s help. Cathy was a true partner with us, especially as we pursued additional help through our son’s school system.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Kayne Elisabeth Wilk ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We really loved working with Alina, she is so fantastic. Patient yet firm, and determined the best course of action very clearly and succintly for us. And it all transitioned so well to Zoom as well. I will definitely be back in touch for … More services for our other child after summer break!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Jen S ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Vera was amazing! My 11 yo daughter made progress so quickly and really looked forward to her sessions. She was kept motivated and engaged.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters susie tofte ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    The work that Allison P. did with our daughter over the years has been invaluable to us. Our daughter had such a good relationship with Allison, and it allowed them to work really well together - even remotely these past 6 months. This … More year, Allison went above and beyond by helping us throughout the neuropsych eval we did, trying to re-open our daughter's IEP at her school, and eventually landing her at our chosen school. She was in contact with our daughter's teachers, with the neuropsychologist, and made herself available as a reference to speak on behalf of our daughter's learning differences.
    Allison stopped by our house last week to give our daughter cupcakes and say goodbye, and I literally cried with appreciation for what an amazing speech therapist she has been. She has been our daughter's biggest champion. The new families that she will work with this year are lucky to have her.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Alicia Perez-Katz ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Sydney was great! Our son was sad to end his sessions with her, which says a lot. We appreciated her honest assessment of his skill level, and he now has materials to self monitor and practice. Thank you!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Kristin Ames ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Our experience with Theo was terrific. Theo was great with my son. He developed a positive relationship with him based on sincerity, respect, trust and a deep personal connection. In their lessons, Theo was encouraging, creative and kind. … More He helped our son understand how to differentiate the sounds he made when he spoke, and gave him great exercises to practice every week between lessons. Our son was sorry to have the lessons come to an end, but recognized that Theo had helped him as much as possible and it was time for him to stop. Theo explained to him (and us) how to keep working to get the last 5%, and encouraged him to keep working on the exercises on his own. I have recommended Theo to another parent who noticed my son's improvement and inquired for her own son.
    We are all grateful to have gotten to know Theo, and we greatly appreciate all the work he did to help our son.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Aisha Holder ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    "I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Michelle Macroy-Higgins. We are extremely pleased with her work with our daughter. I was so grateful for my daughter to have a speech therapist who is a researcher (specialty in late … More talkers), graduate professor and practitioner. Her expertise was clearly evident in our conversations and work with our daughter. She was very responsive to my questions and often sent articles and other materials about language development that I found helpful. Thankfully, my daughter's speech improved tremendously. Michelle developed such a warm relationship with my daughter. My daughter was always excited to see Michelle and would greet her at the door with a big hug. Lastly, I would add that Michelle always demonstrated empathy with me as a mother who was initially worried about her daughter's language development. I could go on and on about how pleased we were with Michelle's work."
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Andrea Peartree ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Theo is a wonderful Clinton Hill speech therapist. We were really pleased with him. Our son showed drastic improvement, not only in his speech but in his confidence.
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters mario costa ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Alexa has been an enthusiastic, reliable, well prepared and caring teacher for our 6 year old daughter. She has been able to improve and increase our daughter's confidence lesson by lesson with patience and competence; through varied … More and productive didactic practice. Alexa has engaged our daughter in several activities that always kept her motivated and eager to learn literacy. My wife and I, both of us are educators, feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe Alexa's pedagogical skills. Alexa has had a big impact on our daughter literacy growth. Thank you Brooklyn Letters!
  • Google review, Brooklyn Letters Lily Alt ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were absolutely DELIGHTED with Marsha's services. She was wonderful. We found her to be kind, fun, engaging, very knowledgeable. She provided us with clear instructions and additional written handouts each week. She engaged our … More son with different techniques and toys, and showed us how to use her techniques when we were interacting with him. I actually just texted her on Saturday - Our son finally said "more" - one of the target words we had been working on with her. It was a total joy to hear, and I had to share it with her - she wrote back immediately to congratulate us. I am so appreciative of her expertise, and wish we could have seen her for longer. I recommended her to another family in our neighborhood who is looking for a speech therapist.

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Jill has been a wonderful tutor to our nine-year old daughter. Writing was one of her least favorite activities and she was initially quite distressed to find out that she would be working with a tutor – but Jill immediately put her at ease and she now absolutely looks forward to their sessions. I’ve seen my daughter’s confidence as a writer grow considerably – she now tackles school assignments with more focus and far less anxiety. Jill has also been working with her to improve reading comprehension and there’s been a notable difference in the types of books that our daughter now enjoys. Jill has made a huge impact and has helped our daughter with these essential foundational skills – I’m so glad has she has been a steady, caring and encouraging resource, especially given the recent and on-going COVID challenges.

- Mel

"We recently had our parent-teacher conference and received Max's Spring reports and thought you would enjoy knowing that Max is reading above grade level (M almost N) and he continues to LOVE reading. He's made significant progress in his fluency, has great comprehension, and is making deep personal and worldly connections to texts. At home and at school Max is an avid reader who often needs multiple reminders to close the book! For his birthday in February, he requested...BOOKS! He's really grown a lot this year and we had a wonderful parent-teacher conference. We wanted to thank you again for your significant contribution to making Max's transition to a new school so successful."

Thanks so much Melissa for the review! Jill is an AMAZING online/remote literacy (reading/writing) specialist/educator/tutor. She's so sweet and caring too! As you said, mission accomplished!

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Literacy Diagnostic Tests (Elementary, Middle, High School Students)

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K-1 Literacy Assessments

Phonological Awareness:

  • Sentence Segmentation
  • Auditory Discrimination
  • Letter and Sound Identification
  • Rhyme Recognition
  • Rhyme Production
  • Syllable Blending
  • Syllable Segmentation

  • Syllable Deletion
  • Phoneme Matching
  • Phoneme Isolation – Initial, Medial, and Final
  • Phoneme Blending
  • Phoneme Segmentation
  • Phoneme Manipulation

  • Sentence Segmentation
  • Auditory Discrimination
  • Letter and Sound Identification
  • Rhyme Recognition
  • Rhyme Production
  • Syllable Blending
  • Syllable Segmentation
  • Syllable Deletion
  • Phoneme Matching
  • Phoneme Isolation – Initial, Medial, and Final
  • Phoneme Blending
  • Phoneme Segmentation
  • Phoneme Manipulation

Foundational Literacy Skills

  • Phonics Skills
  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words 

  • Spelling
  • Oral Reading Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension

  • Phonics Skills
  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words 
  • Spelling
  • Oral Reading Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension

Emergent Writing Stage based on these components:

  • Content
  • Handwriting
  • Spelling

  • Sentence Structure
  • Capitalization/Punctuation

  • Content
  • Handwriting
  • Spelling
  • Sentence Structure
  • Capitalization/Punctuation

Grades 2-3 Assessments

  • Phonics
  • Word Identification 
  • Nonsense Words

Transitional Writing Stage (7-8 years old)

  • Content
  • Handwriting
  • Spelling

  • Sentence Structure
  • Capitalization/Punctuation

  • Content
  • Handwriting
  • Spelling
  • Sentence Structure
  • Capitalization/Punctuation

Writing Composition Assessment (3rd Grade)

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice

  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

Grades 4-8 Assessments

  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words
  • Oral Reading Fluency

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Spelling

  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words
  • Oral Reading Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Spelling

Writing Composition Assessment

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice

  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

Grades 9-12 Assessments

  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words
  • Oral Reading Fluency

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Spelling

  • Word Identification
  • Nonsense Words
  • Oral Reading Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Spelling

Writing Composition Assessment

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice

  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

  • Ideas/Details
  • Organization/Text Structure
  • Voice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Word Choice
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Spelling

Meet our Literacy Evaluator

Jill M.

JIll
M.S., Literacy Specialist

Jill is an expert literacy specialist and math instructor with 19 years of experience educating students from various backgrounds with diverse educational needs in kindergarten through 12th grade.  She is sought after by parents and educational institutions for her expertise and is certified in Bilingual Elementary Education (EC-4), English Language Arts and Reading (4-8), Special Education (EC-12), and Principal (EC-12).  Jill is also certified and equipped to assist dyslexic students in improving their reading, writing, and spelling skills through engaging instruction that utilizes multisensory teaching techniques.

Jill creates a nurturing learning environment and tailors her instruction to meet the individual needs of each student.  She believes in a student-centered approach to learning and incorporates various teaching strategies and resources into each lesson, such as hands-on interactive activities, manipulatives, multimodal digital texts, and mind mapping, to ensure that each child acquires the skills necessary to succeed academically and socioemotionally.  Parents find their children love her instructional style and ease of making learning engaging and fun!

Jill’s instructional expertise includes phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling, fluency, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, dyslexia intervention, and elementary math.  She will design and customize an instructional plan for your child that maximizes their potential and leads to successful outcomes.

In addition to her extensive experience as an educator, Jill is also a leader and role model.  She has mentored new teachers, served as grade-level team leader, provided staff development on effective literacy instruction to teachers and administrators, and led campus literacy initiatives.  She is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University with a Master of Science in Education Law and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Reading Education from Texas Woman’s University.

LOCATION: Online
TYPE OF SERVICES:  Assessments and literacy and math instruction for individual students and groups (2-3 students)
EXPERTISE: Phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling, fluency, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing (composition and handwriting), dyslexia intervention, and elementary math
AGES: Literacy (K-12), Math (K-5)

Online Comprehensive Literacy Assessments (Decoding, Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Reading Comprehension) $500

A high-quality literacy assessment provides detailed information about the specific literacy needs of your child.  The results can be used to develop an individualized tutoring plan that effectively targets the skills your child needs for literacy success. These results can only be used for tutoring purposes only. If you need data to help support getting or updating services for your child at their school, please consult with a state-licensed psychologist.

The literacy assessment takes approximately 1 ½ – 2 hours to administer and is divided into two sessions.  Once the literacy evaluator completes the assessment with your child, they will write a detailed report with their findings and suggested learning goals.  The report will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days (an expedited report is an additional $100 if you need it in less than 5 days) and the evaluator will schedule a 20-30 minute Zoom session to discuss the results and recommendations with you. Learn what reading levels are and the different reading levels between age groups. Discover the importance of the test for reading levels and some common assessment methods used to determine reading levels.

Online Writing Assessments ($200-$250)

Writing can be a source of frustration for many students because it is labor-intensive and requires a high level of organizational skills to pull all of the components together to fully express an idea.  Our writing assessment will identify your child’s writing strengths and areas for continued development.  These results can be used to develop an individualized tutoring plan that effectively targets the skills your child needs to improve their writing expertise.

The writing assessment takes approximately 1 hour to administer.  Once the literacy evaluator completes the writing assessment with your child, they will write a detailed report with their findings and suggested learning goals.  The report will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days (the expedited report is an additional $100 if you need it in less than 5 days) and the evaluator will schedule a 20-30 minute follow-up Zoom session to discuss the results and recommendations with you.

*Writing assessments are only $100 if bundled with a $500 literacy assessment.

The nature of the Reading Literacy Decoding Spelling Assessments is for tutoring purposes only. The literacy assessments performed by our qualified staff are effective for creating targeted literacy goals, not for identifying diagnosed learning disabilities related to literacy. If a diagnosis is needed for documentation to support a 504 plan or an IEP, we will need to refer out to an appropriate out-of-pocket neuropsychologist for a neuropsychological evaluation and potential diagnosis. We work with the top local neuropsychologists and are happy to personally introduce you to them for a free consultation. Please note that these private neuropsychological out-of-pocket evaluations cost an average of $5,000-6,000. We have also compiled a list of low-cost neuropsychological evaluations.

Some children who display literacy weaknesses also experience delays in their expressive or expressive/receptive language skills (sometimes referred to as language processing skills). These children may show signs of a language disorder, so we can provide speech-language evaluations by licensed language pathologists who diagnose and treat students with language weaknesses.
All evaluations by Manhattan Letters staff (speech/language and literacy) can be offered at your home.
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