She spent the next 13 ½ years working for her friend. She recalls that it was a challenging and personally rewarding experience. Her comment on that time in her life is, "After all, how often do we have the opportunity to help someone we care about in a way that truly makes a difference in their lives?"

She spent a year as the children’s pastor at her church, then worked in the after-school program for several years. She also worked on staff at the small private school at the church for 4 years. Because of the size of the school, they had multi-graded classrooms, which meant that she would have students for 2-3 years in a row. This afforded the opportunity to really get to know them and their struggles. She became aware of the difficulty that many of her students had with reading, writing and spelling. Despite the success they would have in other academic areas, she noticed they often faltered when faced with any task that required reading or writing.

After significant amounts of research she realized the struggle many of them had was dyslexia, a language processing disorder. During her final year at the school, she tutored several of the students she had taught in the classroom and found that the impact was much greater in an hour of tutoring a week than in 5 hours a day of classroom instruction. That gave her the push to begin a private practice as a dyslexia tutor in 2005.

When she reached her capacity as a private tutor, she committed to training others to work with her to meet the challenge of teaching these bright, curious and gifted people to read fluently. In 2008 she opened The Learning Solution and has grown in that time to having trained 5 tutors that are on her staff, one of whom has already become certified (the gold standard for proficiency in this field).

The Learning Solution is unique because they only tutor individuals (children, teens and adults) who demonstrate the classic warning signs of dyslexia. She uses only research-based, best practices for teaching reading, spelling and basic writing for dyslexics. Currently they are the only clinic offering these services in the southwest Florida area.

Developmental dyslexia is characterized by a difficulty in reading, spelling and basic writing, typically first showing up in children at about the 3rd grade level, who otherwise possess the intelligence and motivation considered necessary for accurate and fluent reading. It represents one of the most common problems affecting children and adults. In the United States, the prevalence of dyslexia is estimated to range from five to 17 percent of school-aged children, with as many as 40 percent of the entire population reading below grade level, so Laurie feels she has her work cut out for her.

The Learning Solution is structured to insure they provide the highest level of expertise possible for every client. Laurie feels she does not have the option of failure, and does her best to make sure every child, teen or adult she tutors gets the help they need to learn to live and thrive with dyslexia.

The Learning Solution of SW Florida has become an educational support center committed to identifying and tutoring individuals (from children to adults) with dyslexia, supporting their families, and is now even consulting educators in public schools on classroom strategies.

When she is not working, Laurie lives in a cozy home in North Fort Myers, which has many tropical fruit trees producing nearly all year long. She attends Covenant Community Ministries, a church located in east Fort Myers, and serves on the technical team there, which she says is a bit funny, since she considers herself to be technically challenged!

She is passionate about helping children, teens and adults achieve their God given potential and loves working with dyslexic individuals. She maintains dyslexic people are the most creative and persistent people on the face of the earth!

 

The Learning Solution
Laurie Frydenlund, Founder
5245 Ramsey Way, Unit 9
Fort Myers, FL 33907
239-313-6211 Phone

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