Specialties
We work with students of all ages to strengthen the underlying processing skills and help them reach their full potential. We teach reading, writing, math, spelling, attention, organization, and memory by going after and developing the brain processes that are necessary for successful, independent learning.
Specialties include improving these areas:
Auditory processing
Language and communication
Memory
Attention
Processing (thinking) skills
Handwriting
Reading and Spelling
Logic and Reasoning
Executive Function and organization
Motor coordination and sensory integration
Math, Writing, Study skills and more
History
Established in 2003.
Brenda's passion to help struggling students become successful learners led to the establishment of Pathfinders in 2003. She began her career in education in 1994 at a small private school and later taught third, fourth, and fifth grade in the Saddleback Unified School District in Southern California. She worked at the Orange County Department of Education as a Reading Resource Teacher in Special Education where she trained teachers in reading instruction and facilitated classroom instruction. She is certified as a Dyslexia Remediation Specialist.
She has spent the past several years studying the latest research about the brain and has been trained in specialized programs to retrain the brain and develop underlying skills. The traditional approach to diagnose and treat learning difficulties is incomplete. We now know that the brain has an attribute known as plasticity, meaning it can change.
Meet the Business Owner: Brenda L.
Hello, my name is Brenda, and I am the Executive Director and founder of Pathfinders. I started my career as a classroom teacher, and many people ask why I left teaching. I can answer that question with one word: Frustration. I saw smart kids who were painfully struggling to learn or read. Learning specialists tried to help, but strategies and accommodations are like band-aids on a gaping wound - they don't work and truly do not address the root of the problems.
I became determined and committed to find real, effective solutions to help kids learn. Children who are struggling in school are at a crossroads in their education and Pathfinders offers new possibilities: learning problems can be solved permanently. At Pathfinders we teach reading, writing, math, spelling, attention, organization, and memory by going after and developing the brain processes that are necessary for these foundational skills and successful, independent learning.
