Christina is a supreme special education teacher. My grandson, living with the challenges of ADHD and auditory processing, struggled all the way through school. I felt he missed out on so many fundamentals and he is bright so I wanted enrichment for him also. Last summer and fall I hired Christina to come to my home to tutor him, and she worked collaboratively with me, asking me what kinds of subjects and skills did I want her to concentrate on. Then she formulated very professional lessons, and they were true to life. Since his weak area was math, she worked on rounding for all operations when numbers were large, and she worked on a little memorizing to help him to stop using his fingers. In addition she helped him with basic multiplication facts, that culminated in a grocery store field trip where he developed skills enough to make frugal buying choices among many products, and even estimate a total bill. Christina not only honed in on weak areas, she used his strong areas, like history and science to help him become less of a reluctant writer. She used other interests such as possible careers he was thinking about and taught with pieces of videos that would stimulate him to converse at length as well as keep a journal. She also helped strengthen his math skills by using life skills; i.e., teaching him to keep track of a mock checking account. He was also interested in becoming a carpenter so Christina got him to do math by making up a blueprint of a basic house, and he wound up measuring all the rooms to get dimensions, then the whole square footage of the house. Christina was an excellent professional who even took him on field trips, like a museum in Philadelphia. She taught him test taking skills and sharpened his ability to focus and make eye contact. I would be so proud to recommend her. Janet

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