"My purpose is to help you to achieve your academic potential. If I only address the difficulties you experience with your current textbook without identifying and treating the cause of that problem, it may persist."

HILDA COYNE, LEARNING SPECIALIST, sormer Services Provider for the Baltimore City Public Schools System, Division of the Office of Compensatory Awards, for kindergarten through twelfth grade students. She is Past Chair for Learning Disabilities with the Special Professional Interest Network of the National Association for Developmental Education. She is also a former guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins University on "The Teaching of Reading and Spelling." She has helped hundreds of students to overcome learning problems and achieve accademic success.

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Reprinted from
THE KIDSTREET NEWS 
May 1992

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Reprinted from
BALTIMORE MAGAZINE
November 1998

Another group of students who do well with specialized tutors are those whose weakness in basic skills are compounded by other problems - dyslexia, learning disability, or perceptual deficits. Hilda Coyne, a Learning Specialist with A-1 Evaluation and Tutoring, says her approach to remediation is to "strengthen learning pathways" by using art, music, and other novel methods to present information. For example, a student may be having trouble because of a visual "difference" that makes it easier to see in three dimensions than two. To help such a student with math, Coyne might create a three-dimensional model of a math problem, then advance to writing the same problem in high-contrast colors, then in low-contrast gray pencil on white paper. The same applies in other subjects.

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