Natalie
Patient and creative tutor, experience working with ADD & ADHD
Hello, I am Natalie. I am 23 as of this month. I am a graduate of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. I have a BA in Literature and Creative Writing. In high school I was a teaching assistant for the resource class helping students with ADHD and other disabilities learn important study skills and organization. I tutored students as young as five with ADD. I recently returned from a five week volunteer trip in Thailand and Cambodia. There I designed a...
ADD/ADHD
I have roughly three years' experience tutoring students with ADHD and ADD. I have ADHD and ADD. I understand what approaches work. Each student needs the lesson tailored to their specific way of learning. By breaking down the work students are less likely to get overwhelmed. If ten pages of reading are assigned and students have five days to read them, the student will read two pages each day. I struggled through school until a handful of teachers took the time to work with me. I developed study and organization techniques. Thanks to the extra time those teachers took with me I was myself a teaching assistant for the resource class. Resource is a class for students with special needs. I have tutored students as young as six. I taught ten year olds English in Thailand while doing volunteer work over the summer. I have students I tutor right now that are grappling with ADHD and their medications, as well as everything else that goes with it. I have a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from UCSB. I studied at Oxford during the summer when I was sixteen. I graduated in four years from UCSB. All of these things I was able to do because of those teachers that went the extra mile to make sure I wasn't left in the dust. It takes time and effort to find the right approach for each student. I am committed to doing that for each and every student.