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For Learners and Families

Learning Services

Customized Tutoring

Learning Evaluations

Social Learning and Speech Therapy

Life-Changing Learning For All Ages

We are a nonprofit learning center dedicated to helping children and adults reach their academic, social, and professional goals. With proven strategies that get results, we lead the way in individualized instruction, social learning programs, and educational evaluations.

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Customized Tutoring and Instruction

Our services and interventions are designed to improve academic proficiency through expert instruction, personalized attention, and a strengths-based approach that achieves results. Our extraordinarily dedicated teachers work one-on-one with students, adults, and families, and collaborate with schools to build custom plans that fit each learner’s needs.

Tutoring Services

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Learning Evaluations

Take the first step toward getting the help and support you or your child needs to move forward in school, work, and life. For anyone concerned about a learning, attentional, or emotional difficulty, we assess cognitive, linguistic, academic, and social/behavioral/attention skills.

Evaluations & Testing

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Through direct teaching, coaching, and practice we help students and adults navigate social situations and develop and maintain positive relationships. Students will gain a better understanding of themselves, learn how to connect with others, manage their emotions, make responsible decisions, and more.

Social Learning & Speech Therapy

Additional Support

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For anyone struggling with social skills, our Social Thinking Groups can help them understand the thinking behind their words and actions.

Social Thinking Support

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Speech Therapy

We provide comprehensive evaluations and individualized intervention for people with language, speech, and swallowing challenges.

Speech and Language Therapy

Reading Readiness Check-Up

For parents curious about their child’s early reading skills, we offer a helpful check-up and expert advice for raising strong readers.

Early Reading Check-Up

Supporting Learners

Financial Assistance

Our need-based scholarships make Stern Center services more accessible to learners and families. Assistance is based on income and the number of people in your family.

Scholarship Options

What Learners Have to Say

Our daughter is more confident, feels better about herself as a learner, and is much more successful in school. These are the kinds of outcomes Stern Center delivers. It’s an investment in your child’s future.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

The Orton-Gillingham instruction our daughter has received from the Stern Center has been AMAZING, improving not only her reading abilities but also her confidence.

Parents of a Stern Center Student

The most knowledgeable, professional, empathetic, motivating, compassionate, helpful, and understanding, staff and social service agency I have come across.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

Our child adores the instructor and really enjoys working with her every week. I think the biggest takeaway, though, has been the newfound confidence in herself as a reader since starting at the Stern Center!

Parents of a Stern Center Student

To see the improvement in our son’s literary skills has been life-changing for our family. The Stern Center staff are professional and knowledgeable and easy to communicate with.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

It was a very comprehensive evaluation with clear recommendations for our son’s school team.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

I like my whole tutoring session because the teacher makes learning really fun!

Stern Center Student

Our child’s instructor is a wonderfully engaging and kind person and it has been amazing for our child to develop this long-term educational skill-building relationship. We love being able to access the Stern Center resources through remote instruction even though we live far away!

Parents of a Stern Center Student

The teacher is amazing! She is a gifted teacher: intelligent, organized, and motivated to build rapport with our child. She wrote a series of decodable texts to match our son’s interests and sent home decodable stories, word lists, and games, so we, as parents, could practice and support our child at home. The teacher was always an email away and showed unwavering support and kindness all year.

Parents of a Stern Center Student

The information we received in the evaluation process has been very beneficial for our daughter, academically and personally. It gave me an opportunity to help her understand what had been holding her back from learning. It also enabled me to advocate for her with the school. I am happy to say that she has blossomed into an outgoing and happy student who is making substantial academic gains and feels so much better about herself!

Parent of a Scholarship Recipient

As an educator myself and a learning disability teacher consultant, I knew my child had specific learning needs. Having Stern assess my daughter gave me a feeling of relief. The report was well written and justified support and services from our school district. Now I can continue to advocate for my daughter. Thank you for helping our family.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

Thank you for providing me with the support to get the tutoring I needed at the Stern Center. You made it possible for me to learn and develop the skills I needed to pursue my dream of becoming a writer and illustrator. Reading and writing used to be very hard for me, but now I am reading and writing easily and a lot. My tutor taught me so much, and I really loved my sessions with her!

Scholarship Recipient

We received a thorough assessment, and everyone was friendly and supportive throughout the process.

Parents of a Stern Center Student

It’s a long road to medical school for anybody. It’s probably ten times as long for me, but I have started studying for the MCATs. I’m incredibly thankful to have found the Stern Center. It has changed my whole emotional life, my relationships, my financial situation, my confidence, and my vision of the future.

Stern Center Adult Learner

The Comprehensive Report is worth its weight in gold. Looking forward to my follow-up with the evaluation team. You guys are tremendous. Thank you!

Parent of a Stern Center Student

We have been very impressed with the Stern Center, for both tutoring services and learning evaluations for our daughter. Before we found Stern, she struggled with math and executive functioning—but working weekly with her tutor, her skills improved and her confidence skyrocketed, and she is now thriving.

Parents of a Stern Center Student

The Stern Center saved our daughter’s life. I love that she can access tutoring remotely. The tutor is a great match for our daughter.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

I feel incredibly fortunate to have found the Stern Center for my 10-year-old son who has dyslexia. He has come a long way over these past two years. He has had instruction in-person as well as online and has had success with both platforms. The educators at Stern Center are top-notch and professional! I will be forever grateful for this amazing center!

Parent of a Stern Center Student

I am very pleased with the entire process. My son felt comfortable, and having a diagnosis has helped him understand that his frustration over the years was not his fault—it is just the way his brain is wired. It has provided me with the details to advocate for his needs educationally.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

The evaluator was very knowledgeable, professional, and supportive. The evaluation process was thorough. The results and recommendations were easy to understand and very helpful.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

Our son has struggled with reading his whole life. He is so determined he sets his alarm early every morning to have me read his notes and textbooks. Our school tells us his grades are too good for him to be tested, but he can’t really read: he has just tried to find ways to compensate. He cannot wait to be tested. He believes that if he learns how his brain works, he will be able to learn better.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

Our daughter’s tutoring sessions have been a truly wonderful experience and a real gift. This year has been a time of growth, expansion, and learning. Our daughter is now an avid reader and prolific writer, always with her nose in a book or writing and drawing in her notebook and dreaming up another new story to tell. It’s an indescribable feeling to witness and participate in her learning process as she spreads her winds and is now flying high!

Parent of a Scholarship Recipient

This has been the most valuable experience for our family to help us understand our child’s learning profile and instructional needs. The evaluators were incredibly professional, approachable, and, most importantly, able to provide our son’s school team with a clear plan of how to meet his instructional needs.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

The evaluation was extremely thorough, the evaluator very knowledgeable, and report and recommendations very helpful and useful moving forward.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

The Stern Center has given my daughter a whole new outlook on herself as a learner. She has the tools to problem-solve and figure things out, and all her teachers have noticed a huge improvement in her work since she started instruction….All around, the Stern Center has been a huge blessing for her!

Parent of a Stern Center Student

I would not have had the courage to go to law school, the confidence and success I had in high school or undergrad, if it hadn’t been for the foundational principles the Stern Center taught me.

Zachary Terwilliger, US Attorney

One thing I like about the program is it helps me to know more and to read some of the big words and also improve my reading with short vowels and long vowels.

High school student

From elementary school through to life as a young adult, I could not ask for a better resource than the Stern Center to help my son continue to grow and learn how to be his best self. The Stern Center truly understands him as a unique person and can explain challenges in a way he can understand with strategies within his reach to implement.

Parent of a Stern Center Student

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Our Reach by the Numbers

1,800+

Teachers Served This Year

When a teacher takes one of our courses, the positive impact ripples beyond one life, spreading through an entire classroom, school, and community.

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Our Reach by the Numbers

10,901+

Student Services Hours This Year

We offer one-on-one teaching that transforms lives, lifts up voices, and inspires learners to bring forth their unique gifts to a world that awaits them.

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Our Reach by the Numbers

415+

Schools Served This Year

We celebrate the dedication of our school partners and share their commitment to a brighter future for all learners.

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Our Reach by the Numbers

States and Counting

We’re a national leader in language and literacy. Our impact currently extends across 39 states and several countries through the thousands of educators we reach and students we serve.