CAROLYN ANTEN
BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED
HELPING INDIVIDUALS FROM AGE 6 TO ADULTS IN EASTERN UTRECHT PROVINCE AND THE GREATER HILVERSUM AREA
Support in your home or school
carolynanten@gmail.com
06 - 22012911 Leusden, NL
Reading Specialist: focus dyslexia/ Dyslexiebehandelaar in het Engels
Spring 2025: My agenda is almost full; contact me and see if we can work something out.
Dyslexia Support in English serves two types of individuals, native English speakers
and non-native speakers struggling with English, dyslexia or dyslexic tendencies.
Individuals come to me knowing that they are struggling with English. They may also have dyslexia or dyslexic tendencies. Above all, they are not receiving the support needed to succeed in school, whether that is an international school, a typical Dutch school or a university. I help students succeed so that they can become successful independent learners. I only use strategies, methods and programs that have been proven to work via scientific peer-reviewed research.
I do assessments to inform my teaching and determine the needs of the students. Assessments tell me many things about the individual needs of a student, e.g., level of reading comprehension, knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and known spelling patterns. I cannot teach someone without assessing their needs. I analyze the results of the assessments and write specific learning objectives for each student. The learning objectives provide the framework for each lesson that I teach.
What are dyslexic tendencies?
Dyslexia can appear in various forms: phonological dyslexia, rapid naming deficit, and double deficit dyslexia.
Some people struggle with reading and spelling (phonological dyslexia); others with retrieving information from memory which hinders their ability to pull words from memory (a rapid naming deficit); and finally, some people struggle with both and additional skills (double deficit dyslexia). Some individuals will never learn to read without extra support, while others can have some degree of dyslexia but have enough adaptive skills to never be diagnosed with dyslexia. Yet almost every learner with dyslexia can benefit from extra support.
Signs of dyslexia include the following:
(From The Mayo Clinic, Dyslexia Symptoms)
For children younger than five years
For elementary school children
For teens and adults
Note: I do not diagnose individuals with dyslexia or carry out formal testing to determine a diagnosis.
Educational psychologists have the training to determine a diagnosis.
Spring 2025: My schedule is almost full after school; contact me and see if we can figure something out.
Basic Reading Support
I provide fundamental help with learning to read. The student is still struggling to read after months or years of appropriate instruction. Something is not clicking for the learner and more specialized help is needed.
Spelling
This is support for individuals who need help learning spelling patterns in English. A systematic sequential program will be used to teach spelling after assessing which spelling patterns are not secure. Exception/tricky words--these are words that cannot be fully sounded out but must be memorized--will be taught as necessary. The appropriate spelling assessments will be used to determine which spelling patterns to teach. Examples of exception words are beauty, said and business.
Reading Comprehension -- begrijpend lezen
Good reading comprehension skills are essential to achieving success in school. I will teach how to read for understanding, monitor understanding, and use pre and post-reading strategies. We practice various strategies, and the student selects the strategies that he/she likes best. I also recommend the use of audiotexts for some students.
Writing
I provide help with planning/pre-writing skills, writing, revising and editing.
For further information see the Services page.
I'm an English teacher with a specialization in supporting learners with dyslexia. I'm based in Leusden, the Netherlands and travel throughout east Utrecht province to support individuals. I teach native and non-native speakers of English who have dyslexia or dyslexic tendencies and need to achieve a certain level of proficiency in English to meet their goals in life. I teach in-person. Online lessons with older students are possible--but never the best choice--after we have established learning objectives and developed a rapport with each other in-person.