I have known Jared for quite some time now and I have never seen a professional so adept at establishing healthy and very strong rapport so efficiently. He gets to know his students intimately, quickly, and impactfully. He excels at bringing strategies, calm and poise to all types of students, but especially to those who have many sorts of “learning differences.”
That sometimes means students with extreme ADHD or ADD, Dyslexia, very low working memory, low motor speed, very weak or poor attention abilities, inhibition to rule learning, low sustained attention for auditory information or an inability to contend with competing task demands. Jared knows all the strategies for how to treat this constellation of symptoms: lots of prompting and cueing, assaulting all of the senses to encourage maximum retention and comprehension, exposure to auditory measures, reducing impulsivity, and providing much-needed context for Literature and History.
In addition, Jared provides much-needed scaffolding and chunking of assignments. He is the very best at making everything relatable to the student’s world, which helps immeasurably with the learning process. Jared is no stranger to kids with depression, intense performance and social anxiety, existential angst and those who feel that they “do not measure up.” By crushing some of those myths, Jared instills confidence and self-esteem, while enforcing self-accountability and independence of thought and action. In short, Jared knows how to motivate, how to cheer his kids on, how to press them, and when to hang back. I give him my very highest recommendation!