Active Reading Clinic

The Active Reading Clinic develops reading skills using the Reading Revolution™ method, a multi sensory, multi-intelligence approach to reading. It integrates all the different intelligences and teaches to the student’s strengths through games and activities. It is based on phonics but we add the kinesthetic, or physical component, which is absolutely necessary for non-traditional learners (those who don’t learn through the visual or auditory intelligences alone, as in a traditional classroom environment). We use the Socratic method. This allows students to develop their own critical and logical thinking skills while learning to read, leading to increased confidence and
self-esteem. We work with many different kinds of students: those with dyslexia, auditory processing disorders, lack of visual memory, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s, autism, Down’s syndrome, and the many students who are kinesthetic learners and just need a different way to process information.

Our founder is Judy Kranzler, a resident of Walnut Creek, who first opened the Active Reading Clinic in 1985. It was Judy’s own experience struggling to read with dyslexia and ADHD that, as an adult, led her to create a reading program that would be effective for non-traditional learners. She developed the Reading Revolution™ method to support kinesthetic learners like herself.