Brooklyn Letters — Local services in New York

Any child would be fortunate to work with Kristine! It is rare to find a tutor who exhibits the compassion and expertise for her job that Kristine does. She arrives at the front door with a smile on her face, loves her job and her calm and nurturing personality makes it easy for our son to want to work with her. Kristine has been successfully giving our son the tools he needs to find success in his classes. She structures her sessions to cater to his needs and keeps his interest for the full hour and sometimes more. Her post session updates on his progress are extremely informative and helpful. Any child would be fortunate to work with Kristine!

Jonathan & Candace P. Craig and all the tutors and therapists are a delight to deal with, intelligent, knowledgeable, effective, responsible. Highly recommended. Our son is now 9 1/2 years old, attends a mainstream private school in Brooklyn where we live. We have utilized Brooklyn Letters at three different times for our son. Our son has speech apraxia. First at 2 years old, our son did speech therapy twice a week for a year, with Craig Selinger himself. Later at 6 years old I contacted Craig again about a reading tutor, because although our son could read, his school at the time taught reading at a different pace than many schools and we knew we wanted to transfer. Our son made huge progress the full year we had the reading tutor, and has since continued great progress at his new school, where he tests two grades ahead in reading. We wanted to supplement the speech therapy we get at school so last year and this year we once again hired Brooklyn Letters (Rebecca) to provide private speech therapy. With all these tutors or therapists, our son has had a lot of fun and he looks forward to the sessions. I have always recommended Brooklyn Letters to neighbors, friends and classmates who need these services. Craig and all the tutors and therapists are a delight to deal with, intelligent, knowledgeable, effective, responsible. Highly recommended.

Jeanne I am so grateful to her. Amy Strekas is a fantastic speech therapist, reading strategist, and confidence-builder! My now-7 year old son was having difficulty with enunciation, and, perhaps relatedly, hesitating to try reading aloud. I was concerned about taking him to a speech therapist because I did not want to make him (more) self-conscious. A year ago, Craig at Brooklyn Letters recommended Amy, and the whole family has come to rely on her. My 7-year old’s speech is much clearer than it was, and Amy has taught him a bunch of different strategies to try if he is unsure how to make a sound or read a word, which greatly reinforced his reading learning at school. Amy saw immediately how to win my shy son’s confidence (ask him to explain how to play chess to her), and targeted her strategies to his strengths (numbers and sports!) so that he could work on the new skills while feeling good about himself. My son looks forward to Amy’s weekly visits immensely (it is also really helpful that she comes to our house!). Amy recently told me that she thought he was ready to graduate from their sessions, and I immediately felt like this would be a real loss for him and for me as a parent, because I have so come to value Amy’s advice. So I persuaded her to work with him once a week on Spanish (Amy is bi-lingual), which he has just begun at school, and on homework strategies. I am so...

Suzanne Ashman-Kipervaser literally helped my two year old son find his voice. Words can’t describe what a magical gift that has been for him and for our whole family. Around his second birthday, we had our son evaluated because he only had five or six words and seemed to clam up every time we encouraged him to try out a new word. Six months after working with Suzanne, my son is using 2-3 word phrases with a huge variety of words (some of which I have no idea how he learned) and becoming a kid who loves to talk and express himself. Suzanne does this incredible work in each session- she is super purposeful about every interaction with a child. She models strategies that we can then replicate and shows us how to push our son just beyond his comfort zone to ensure continued growth. She does all of this with warmth and gentleness and has an awesome ability to bring just the right engaging toys and activities. Suzanne maximizes every minute of our session and time seems to fly when she is here. Our son’s face lights up every time he seems Suzanne and she’s made the hard work he’s doing with his speech feel fun and satisfying for him! We are so thankful to have...

Our son is now 9 1/2 years old, attends a mainstream private school in Brooklyn where we live. We have utilized Brooklyn Letters at three different times. Our son has speech apraxia. First at 2 years old, our son did speech therapy twice a week, with Craig Selinger himself. Later at 6 years old I contacted Craig again about a reading tutor, because although our son could read, his school at the time taught reading at a different pace than many schools and we knew we wanted to transfer. Our son made huge progress and has since continued great progress at his new school, where he tests two grades ahead in reading. We wanted to supplement the speech therapy we get at school so last year and this year we once again hired Brooklyn Letters (Rebecca) to provide private speech therapy. With all these tutors or therapists, our son has had a lot of fun and he looks forward to the sessions. I have always recommended Brooklyn Letters to neighbors, friends and classmates who need these services. They are a delight to deal with, intelligent, knowledgeable, effective, responsible....