WHO WE ARE
The Commonwealth Learning Center is a non-profit educational center established in 1988 by the Stratford Foundation. We offer one-to-one tutoring to children and adults to help them increase academic skills and reach their full potential.
We have special expertise assisting students with:
- Dyslexia
- ADHD
- Non-verbal learning disabilities
- High functioning autism
- Executive functioning difficulties
We help students who:
- May learn at a different pace
- Have learning style differences
- Have missed instruction due to illness or change of school
- Want to improve their study skills
- Want to learn strategies for standardized test-taking
Tutoring is available in reading, writing, math, exam preparation, academic support, and study skills. Commonwealth Learning Center is accredited by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators.
We offer comprehensive psychological, educational, and speech and language evaluations provided by a team of specialists.
Our learning centers are conveniently located in Needham and Danvers.
We assist students from all over eastern Massachusetts. This is a short list of some of the areas that have benefited from our services: Newton, Brookline, Dedham, Wellesley, Natick, Cambridge, Boston, Watertown, Framingham, Maynard, Concord, Wayland, Marlborough, Waltham, Weston, Salem, Peabody, Beverly, Wenham, Middleton, Lynnfield, and Reading. Come visit us to see if we are the right fit for you!
Our Professional Training Institute offers teacher training courses in multisensory teaching methods. We offer workshops and courses in Orton-Gillingham (including practicum) the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing™ Program, Nancibell® Visualizing and Verbalizing® Program, Educational Evaluations, Study Skills, Reading and Spelling Games, and Math Games. These courses are scheduled throughout the year and are offered on-site for school systems throughout New England. Additionally, the Professional Training Institute sponsors special events for teachers and parents.
Our national teacher training program, the Multisensory Training Institute, offers professional development courses in multisensory methodologies including Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing™, Nancibell® Visualizing and Verbalizing® and Orton-Gillingham programs.
(The Commonwealth Learning Center is an independent, non-profit teaching facility and is not affiliated with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Inc., Pat Lindamood, Phyllis Lindamood, or Nanci Bell.)
