The Dubin Learning Center, established in Santa Barbara in 1979, offers instruction and assessments for students from Kindergarten through to College Level. Educational Therapy meets the needs of students with Learning Differences, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit. Reading instruction is multisensory and uses and adapts a variety of methodology including Lindamood-Bell techniques and supplemental computer based programs including Reading Assistant for fluency, vocabulary, sight recognition and comprehension, and the Fast ForWord Family of programs. Math instruction is developmentally based and targets computation, concepts and problem solving. There is tutoring in all subject areas. There is test prep. for SAT, ISEE, and GATE . The daily morning program, available for the student who is not benefiting from classroom instruction, and is significantly behind academically, is available through the school year. There are after school sessions. There are summer sessions. Sessions are individual. Scheduling is flexible according to needs.

At Lighthouse Learning Solutions, our goal is to provide families with the resources and skills to help students of all ages and ability levels build on strengths and overcome challenges. Students are never viewed through the lens of a label. Rather, we identify where a student is struggling and propose methods of improving that student’s skills in those specific areas through use of research-based methodology that engages and strengthens key areas of cognition. We aim to provide a collaborative setting in which families can share their concerns and find solutions!

As a board certified educational therapist, I work with children and adolescents who struggle in school due to learning differences. I specialize in ADHD and executive functioning challenges as well as reading decoding and fluency, reading comprehension, expressive writing, and study skills and test taking anxiety. Through my work with children, I am able to authentically build self-esteem, which ultimately leads to greater success in school. In addition to my private practice, I supervise Learning Coaches who tutor students in my after school homework program, called The Learning Spot. All of my coaches are either credentialed teachers or they are in school working toward degrees in teaching or speech and language. Furthermore, I have recently hired educational therapy interns to supervise. Both of my interns are in school working toward their Master's Degrees in Educational Therapy. They are available to remediate skills in reading, writing, and math. They also work on building study skills, test taking skills, and they help to improve skills in executive functioning, such as organization, planning, and time-management.