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RISE ABOVE - A Learning Environment

 

Shawn Marie Simon
MA, BCET, a Board-Certified Educational Therapist


About Shawn Simon:

For the past 16 years, Shawn Simon has been in private practice as an educational therapist. In addition, she has been a classroom teacher and a resource specialist.


My Areas of Specialization:

  • Reading, which includes reading decoding, reading fluency, and reading comprehension
  • Critical thinking, expressive writing, and basic math skills
  • Visual and auditory processing deficits
  • Teaching compensatory techniques and creating awareness of learning style and strengths
  • ADD/ADHD and executive functioning skills, including planning, organization, calendar and agenda book use, backpack and binder organization, sequencing, time-management, test-taking, and study skills.
  • Helping to develop a sense of empowerment and independence in your children

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development
  • Master’s Degree in Special Education, with an emphasis in educational therapy
  • Board Certified Member, Association of Educational Therapists
  • Past Board Member, Association of Educational Therapists


“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark”


- Thomas Paine





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