About

My name is Kurt Strengier.

I am a reading interventionist who specializes in delivering research validated literacy programs for students who are significantly behind in reading, reading comprehension, or both. Formerly, I was a director for the Lindamood-Bell Learning Center in Westlake Village. I have thousands of hours of clinical experience working with students with dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, or for whom reading (or understanding what they read) is simply very challenging. I’ve worked with, assessed, and helped hundreds of students to read to their potential - many were as low as the 1st percentile in paragraph reading accuracy and rate and are now reading accurately at grade level.

While there are many schools of thought regarding reading instruction, I primarily utilize a structured literacy approach (SL.) Structured Literacy teaches phonology, sound-symbol association, syllables, morphology, syntax and semantics in a systematic, logical order of our language.

My particular expertise is within the research validated programs developed by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes.

My practice utilizes multisensory methods to develop:

-Symbol Imagery - the engine for letter, grapheme, morpheme, and word recognition

-Sound and Symbol Association

-Phonological and orthographic processing

-Fast and Fluid Word Attack, in which readers grab on to familiar chunks of words, quickly recognizing the orthography and marrying the correct sound to that group of symbols instantly

-Accurate and Fluent Reading

-Concept Imagery - visualizing what we read, as we read

-Synthesis of Information- summarizing content, recalling details, giving a “main idea” of what they read, answering critical thinking questions

I use industry standard assessments pre and post instruction to measure the magnitude of student need, and to document progress.

I hope to make a difference for your student.