Comprehensive

Academic Therapy

Learning how to overcome difficulties so that practice makes progress and not perfect.

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Comprehensive

Academic Therapy

Let our team of experts guide your family during COVID. We know kids and we know how to help them.

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What is the difference between a tutor and educational therapist?

Educational Therapy is conducted by a specialist to children who typically have learning disabilities. It involves multi-sensory evidence based instruction.

Is my child succeeding academically with distance learning?

Our office is committed to providing families with data about learning and present levels. We can help provide recommendations and interventions to help children learn.

What is Educational Therapy?

Intake & Scheduling

Only a few quick documents introducing who you are and what your concerns are, and getting you started with the doctor when you are available.

Parent Interview

One on one telephone interview with the professional to go over your specific concerns with your child, background information and where we should focus our testing.

Testing

Comprehensive Individualized testing based on standards set for your child’s age/grade level.

Report Building

Report will outline your child’s current levels, and recommendations from the professional on how to move forward with this information.

Meeting

Zoom or teleconference that will break down the report and answer any questions you may have about the results and what to do next.

Finished

This information can also be used as key information to give your students new teachers in the new year to help the teacher to understand your child’s learning needs.

We are Experienced

Our professionals have each been working with children for over 25 years. We have helped thousands of children since then.

We are Thorough

Learning Upward will thoroughly review all past records as well as present to ensure the future plan is meaningful and focused to what your child needs.

We Take Our Time

Our testing appointments continue until all of our work is properly done. We understand that everyone works differently and at various pace.

What are the benefits of Educational Therapy?

Choosing Learning Upwards means your child has the care of different professionals who know about the research on disabilities and educational therapies. Working intensively 1:1 or in 3:1 with your child allows for multi sensory instruction to be meaningful. Educational Therapy is individualized based on where your child’s academic, attention, and social emotional skills are. Using data to guide each session and being able to provide that data to families means progress can be measured. Additionally, children often tell their parents they want to come back to our office. Kids will tell you how much we care.

Our Services

Learning Upward provides counseling, specialized academic instruction, coaching, and tutoring. We collect data through our assessments and then develop a treatment plan individualized to your child and family needs. We recognize the unprecedented struggle that children face during COVID. We decided to provide our service so that children and families can get through this together.

Common Core Present Levels Assessment

Reading & Math Therapy

ADHD Assessment

Dyslexia Assessment

Common Core Present Levels Assessment

Learning Upward will conduct standards based testing in the areas of Reading and Math. Parents will get a report of their child’s ELA and Math skills that are aligned with the Common Core standards. Parents will get specific recommendations for ways to remediate and support their child’s learning. Additionally, this information can be used to guide academic therapy or tutoring. Testing takes 2-3 hours in office or remotely.

More reasons to ask for an Common Core Assessment:

  • Determine lost or delayed skills
  • Screen for academic problems or disabilities
  • Peace of Mind
  • Help Guide your child’s teachers for more support.

Reading & Math Therapy

At Learning Upward we provide Reading (ELA) & Math Therapy for kids grades K-12. We deliver effective learning experience to all students. Our ELA and MATH instruction is personalized, adaptive and engaging. Our staff create a highly motivating environment so that you child feels good learning. Gain detailed insight into your student’s math and reading skills with our initial diagnostic assessments. We will accurately measure your child’s progress with pre-post assessment data.

ADHD Assessment

For those suspecting their child might have ADHD, Learning Upward provides a multifaceted assessment approach which includes, neurocognitive, functional behavioral, interviews, behavioral observations, and finally carefully reviewing records and history.

More reasons to ask for an ADHD Assessment:

  • Provide information to Medical Doctor.
  • Begin educating your child about ADHD.
  • Help set up Section 504 accommodations.
  • Begin finding how to help your child get around the disability.

Dyslexia Assessment

Learning Upward will assess your child’s Reading and processing skills to determine why your child is struggling with reading. Our evidence based approach will help determine which type of Dyslexia your child may have (surface, deep, or mixed). Just knowing a child has Dyslexia is not enough for the proper treatment approach.

More reasons to ask for an Dyslexia Assessment:

  • Gain Section 504 accommodations.
  • Determine if you child might need special education.
  • This assessment will open up doors for your child to learn.
  • Begin getting researched based treatment.

About Learning Upward

During COVID-19, Dr. Haytasingh and his colleagues began getting phone calls about concerns parents had about their children’s mental health and educational progress. Since Brain Learning is a diagnostic center, he decided to open up Learning Upward, which will focus on supporting children with or without disabilities.

  • Our Focus for Educational Therapy center is to provide evidence based therapy and support to all children with educational and mental health needs.
  • Our Mission is to give parents knowledge about what supports and services their children might need as well as to provide those services in office and remotely during COVID-19.

We will change the way your child thinkscreatesreadssolvesbelieves

We will spend the necessary time with your child in our office, in the community, and in the school to put all the pieces together.

Meet your team of experts

With over 60 years of combined experience, we want to watch both you and your child grow, having the tools to overcome these challenges together.

Dr. Rienzi Haytasingh
Owner & Educational Psychologist

Dr. Rienzi Haytasingh is a practicing licensed educational psychologist who has devoted his entire professional career towards promoting the lives of students with disabilities and differences.

Erin Haytasingh
Heart & Soul of Brain Learning

Erin Haytasingh manages much of what happens at Brain Learning. She uses her knowledge of children, parenting, and health sciences to help support families that come to Brain Learning.

Lauren Donatelli
Educational Psychologist

Lauren is currently passionate about identifying students’ strengths, specific areas of difficulty, and helping to provide various evidence based interventions.

Alexis Reyes
Main Office Administrator

Alexis Reyes reaches out each day to families correctly so that they don’t end of waiting longer than necessary for their child to get an appropriate assessment or treatment.

Lizzy Savage Guedry
School Psychologist

Lizzy Savage Guedry Ed.S., NCSP is a school psychologist with a passion for ensuring students with differences and disabilities achieve success.

Courtney Slabaugh

Psychologist Assistant

Courtney Slabaugh has been a psychologist assistant at Brain Learning since February 2018 and works closely with families all over San Diego for the past 10 years.

Tiffany Midstokke

Accounting Manager

Tiffany Midstokke has been a psychologist assistant at Brain Learning since February 2018 and works closely with families all over San Diego for the past 10 years.

Angela Phillips

Educational Psychologist

Angela has had an innate passion for working with animals and children since she was a kid. Angela is a Educational Psychologist at Brain Learning 2019

Rachel

Educational Services Coordinator

Rachel is the Intake Coordinator for Brain Learning