Since 1995 the Colorado Reading Center has served families on the Front Range and beyond by providing specialized one-on-one academic therapy for individuals from six years old to adult. We are passionate about literacy and providing struggling readers the help they need to be successful. While we focus on dyslexia, reading comprehension, spelling, and writing difficulties, we also work on academic enrichment as well.
Welcome to the Colorado Reading Center
I am Robert Windle, the owner and Clinical Director of the Colorado Reading Center. I began working in education and mental health in 2009. In 2013, I started working at the Colorado Reading Center shortly after receiving my Masters of Humanities from the University of Colorado Denver. It has been a privilege to help so many families and students over the years. On behalf of our dedicated team of clinicians, we are excited to share our knowledge and passion for literacy. After years of working with students of all ages, we feel passionately that everyone should, and more importantly can, experience the joy of reading.
Our Tutoring Programs
Our unique services are tailored to each individual and drawn from a long scientific body of work specifically designed to address learning difficulties outlined by the National Reading Panel. Our programs are based on the current science of reading, which is supported by over fifty years of research in cognitive development and literacy instruction. We are a small business with the flexibility and expertise to combine programs based on each student’s needs. Building on a long history of success in these areas, we have consistently demonstrated the beneficial remediation of learning difficulties.
Reading & Dyslexia
PASP
For students with a weakness with phonological processing and symbol imagery skills. This complete reading program strengthens the underlying weaknesses and uses a structured, systematic, multi-sensory, synthetic phonics approach to develop the student’s reading skills in one on one tutoring.
Spelling & Reading
Orthography
If the student has trouble reading unknown words and spelling, but does not have a weakness with phonological processing, an approach that emphasizes phonics and learning the rules that govern how words are spelled (orthography) works well. Learn more about our one on one tutoring approach for spelling.
Reading Comprehension
ReadingFish
When students can read well, but have trouble answering questions about what they read, it is often because they are not ‘coding’ the language into good visual imagery to support comprehension. Our program helps the student learn to create accurate visual imagery from what they read in one on one tutoring.
Writing
Framing Your Thoughts
Students who struggle to express themselves in writing can be more successful by thinking about writing in different way. Using multi-sensory techniques, Framing your Thoughts provides students with a new and stress free way to learn writing skills in a one one one tutoring environment.
Assessment Testing
We begin the process by administering standardized test measures to ensure an accurate and impartial assessment of reading, comprehension or writing skills. These test results are then combined with a review of assessments you may have available from your school or psychologist to design a remediation program that meets your child’s specific needs.
Speak the Lingo
Learn more about common literacy terms.
A broad term that refers to the our general ability and understanding to hear, distinguish, identify, and manipulate the component sounds and syllables of a language. This skill involves awareness of syllables, phonemes, onset sounds, and rhyming. It is a necessary reading skill.
This essential reading skill is also called ‘sound out’ or ‘word attack.’ It consists of automatically recognizing the sound-symbol correspondence (identifying letters and their matching sounds) and blending these into words. This skill is the main driver of reading new, unknown, and longer, multisyllabic words.
The knowledge of the spelling conventions of a language. This includes the set of rules or expectations of not only spelling but word formation, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. This skill supports accurate spelling, sight word recognition, and quick decoding.
The ability to image or visualize symbolic information in the mind’s eye. Students are able to confidently image the letters in words. This foundational skill supports reading, the acquisition of sight words, and spelling.
This form of mental imagery conceptualizes language in the form of dynamic images. This is the ‘movie’ or ‘theater’ of the mind. By supporting comprehension and critical thinking while reading, visual imagery allows students to access the imaginative world of texts.
Get Started Today
Schedule an assessment to receive a customized learning plan tailored to your or your child’s specific needs. Choose from in-office, at school, or online.
Colorado Reading Center
Call Us Today at 303-781-9800
Successfully solving learning problems since 1995
450 West Jefferson Ave
Englewood, Colorado 80110