Kristin Powell
Founder of The Reading Clinic,
Educational Consultant

Kristin Powell is a professional speaker, trainer and educational consultant. Her consulting services include:

Diagnostic Testing Interpretation & Consultation

Attending IEP Meetings and/or School Meetings

Consulting on School Placement

Consulting for Home Schooling Families

Professional Training & Group In-Services

Kristin's speaking and training topics include:

• Multi-sensory approach to learning
• Auditory and visual processing and its effect on reading
• Visual imaging and its effect on comprehension
• Demystifying learning differences
• Identifying your child’s learning style
• What it takes to be a good student in an aggressive and competitive curriculum
• Keeping your child from slipping through the educational cracks

Kristin Powell has presented to such groups as the Los Altos Selpa 1 CAC, Parents Helping Parents, CAPSES – California Association of Private Special Education Schools & PTA Groups and Schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also taught and developed classes for UCSC Ed. Therapist Program.

Beth Powell
Speaker, Trainer, Math Consultant

Beth has worked in the field of education for 15 years. After completing her Baccalaureate degree in Math and her Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership with a focus on math education, she developed the Math with Ease® Program. Beth is also a musician and is part of the theatrical community. She was a consultant for the theatrical production of “Proof”.

Beth's speaker topics include:

• The what and how of multi-sensory mathematics
• Using history of math as a teaching tool
• How to Identify and support students with math learning disabilities
• The role of creativity in math
• How to teach math to poets and artists
• The affects of dyslexia on learning math
• Comprehension strategies for math

Beth will be presenting, “Math Learning Disabilities: Identify, Support and Refer” At the California Mathematics Council Conference at Asilomar in Monterey, CA. on Saturday Dec. 6th, 2008.

Lars Guthrie
Speaker, Trainer, Learning Consultant

Lars has been consulting, managing, and developing programs for The Reading Clinic since its inception in 1997. As creator of The Morphology Program®, Lars makes presentations on how discovering word origins can inspire reluctant readers and help them improve spelling and vocabulary. He has been instrumental in integrating curriculum, particularly social studies, into The Reading Clinic’s programs. He has also focused on integrating executive functioning and meta-cognition in all our students. An avid reader and collector of children's literature, Lars reviews books in that genre in Lars's Library. He received his Baccalaureate degree in History and teaching credentials at San Francisco State University.

Lars' speaker topics include:

• Morphology: Using the history of our language to improve reading, spelling and vocabulary
• Auditory and visual processing and its effect on reading
• How we learn to read and spell
• Demystifying learning strengths and weaknesses for students and their families