Valerie is a Certified Academic Language Therapist through ALTA (Academic Language Therapy Association), a dyslexia specialist, and holds her Reading Specialist certification through the Colorado Department of Education. She has over 30 years in combined experience as either a classroom teacher, private tutor, homeschool parent, or dyslexia therapist. She has spent the last seven years providing therapeutic instruction to young children, teens, young adults, and adults.

 

Valerie received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with a concentration in Reading development from Metropolitan State University in Denver. She later completed her Master of Arts in Teaching through the Dyslexia Specialist/Literacy Interventionist program at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

 

When two of Valerie’s own children presented with learning challenges, she worked tirelessly to find the support and help they needed. Valerie is deeply committed to building skillsets and competencies in children before any sense of failure sets in. She believes that all children can and will learn to read and write with proper instruction and patience. She comes with a deep and empathetic understanding for parents who have children whose learning needs are different. She knows the way through and can offer hope as her own children are all college graduates who are successful in their own adult life and careers.

 

She is passionate about literacy and learning and is excited to work with your child.