Teaching & Learning with Families

Your family is the most important thing in your life. Families provide essential support, shape values, and foster development. We know you want to be a space where you can offer your child emotional security, a sense of belonging, and an influence on their beliefs and behaviors throughout life. That's why we are here to help you build a space and system that allows you to work with your family and bring peace to your home.

Practical Behavior Help

Do you find yourself frustrated with the challenges of parenting a child with a strong active mind or who has ADHD? We can help you apply practical, easy-to-implement strategies to bring peace to your home.

Learning Support

Is your child struggling with learning to read? Do you want to help them at home but don't know how? We can work with you to identify your child's specific needs and customize a learning plan that works for you!

Support & Advocacy at School

Are you concerned your child is not getting the help they need at school? Do you need help navigating a recent diagnosis or understanding IEP/504 plans? We work with you and your child's school to ensure your child's needs are being met.

Areas of Expertise

Science of Reading
English & Spanish

Academic success, as defined by high school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone’s reading skill at the end of third grade.
(National Research Council, 1998)

Dr. Ortiz has extensive research and teaching experience in teaching children to read and building foundational reading skills. She has taught several courses and regularly delivers trainings & workshops on evidence-based strategies for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities in reading (including Dyslexia).

Literacy

Dr Ortiz's academic training has been in Special Education. As a teacher Dr. Ortiz taught students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders and her research experience has been with students who have Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Intellectual Disability. Dr. Ortiz has a wealth of experience in evidence-based practices for working with students with disabilities and believes that ALL students can learn when given the right supports and opportunities.

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Special Education

Special Education is not a place, but rather supports and services brought to students through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
(Peak Parent Center, Inc.)

Behavior Support & Management
Behavior support for families focuses on promoting positive behavior and addressing challenging behaviors in the home. It involves strategies like establishing clear expectations, creating positive routines, and using positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors.

Having taught students with behavior disorders and having a child with ADHD, Dr. Ortiz knows that the adult is the most important variable when it comes to behavior management. She understands the day to day challenges of parenting a neurodivergent child and can help you identify the "why" , focus on the positive, teach replacement behaviors, and help you establish consistency and routine.

Teaching & Learning with Families

Areas of Expertise

Science of Reading English & Spanish Academic success, as defined by high school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone’s reading skill at the end of third grade. (National Research Council, 1998)

Special Education Special Education is not a place, but rather supports and services brought to students through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). (Peak Parent Center, Inc.)

Science of Reading
English & Spanish

Academic success, as defined by high school graduation, can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by knowing someone’s reading skill at the end of third grade.
(National Research Council, 1998)

Special Education

Special Education is not a place, but rather supports and services brought to students through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
(Peak Parent Center, Inc.)