The Morris Center: where cognitive improvements and remediation of learning disabilities are possible.

Expert practitioners test and delve deep to understand and meet each unique client where they are.

Our multidisciplinary teams (Neuropsychologists, School Psychologists, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Recreational Therapists, Educational Instructors) test and collaborate to comprehensively assess and understand each client’s individual needs to provide personalized support. They develop and apply individualized and continuously optimized treatment plans for amazing rates of short and long term gains and remediation unmatched by other programs.
For more than three decades, The Morris Center (TMC) has been changing the lives of individuals who have struggled with complex neurodevelopmental disorders like

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  • Dyslexia
  • Dysgraphia
  • Dyscalculia
  • Dyspraxia
  • Autism
  • Sensory Processing Disorder
  • language disorders
  • Down Syndrome
  • ADHD
  • NF-I learning challenges
  • and other neurodevelopmental problems

Our comprehensive approach, informed by the science of how learning happens in the brain, improves weak skills, turning them into stronger skills and even strengths. If you or a loved one has struggled with learning to read or other learning difficulties, you may think changing weaker skills into strengths sounds too good to be true.  The Morris Center’s programs are not like most programs. You are correct that most programs do not lead to large and long-lasting gains. However, TMC’s literacy and dyslexia remediation program is “evidence-based” and scientifically proven to improve weaker skills in sounding out words, reading accuracy, reading fluency, and spelling. View our scientific talks and clients’ testimonials and see for yourself!

All-Inclusive Testing & Treatment Centers

Confused by everything you’ve seen and heard about learning difficulties? We understand your frustration as there are so many webpages, FB groups and social media posts with personal opinions and anecdotes on learning difficulties and what can or cannot be done to improve them. However, TMC clinics provide high caliber, scientific evidence and scientific research about the empowering program that they have been refining for over 20 years.

Learning difficulties or diagnosed Specific Learning Disorders are  complex and  might be accompanied by other medical or neurodevelopmental concerns. The Morris Center staff includes licensed professionals (Neuropsychologists, School Psychologists, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Recreational Therapists, Educational Instructors) who conduct a wide range of testing for learning difficulties (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia) and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. For example, when TMC clinics provide dyslexia testing and evaluations for other learning disabilities, they also test for overlapping issues like ADHD, sensory processing disorder, autism, academic struggles from Down Syndrome, language disorders, and disruptive behavior disorders. Our transdisciplinary team of licensed professionals provides

  • Speech-Language Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Medical Treatment
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychiatry/Medication Management
  • Learning Difference Tutoring
  • Psychometric Testing
  • Neurological Testing

Our Methods are Driven by TMC’s Independently Published Research and Cutting-Edge Literature of Brain Science

Conflicting information abounds and many people believe that those with learning difficulties have them for life. TMC clinics’ research (and testimonials) prove that problems like dyslexia, dyscalcula and language disorders can be remediated through our evidence-based tutoring program. TMC has proven in more than one million dollars of scientific research over more than 20 years, that learning disorders CAN be fully remediated, resulting in students exiting Special Ed classes, and ending their need for IEP’s and even enabling students with Dyslexia to succeed in advanced classes and magnet schools where they succeed!

Our dedicated team offers a comprehensive, one-stop approach to treat language, sensory and/or motor processing disorders, as well as the attention, mood, anxiety, memory, learning and behavioral challenges that are often attendant. Research has proven that a transdisciplinary, intensive approach to treatment is most effective, and our TMC teams stay on the cutting edge of research and methodologies for treatment.

NOW! Programs® NICHD RCT Outcomes 5 Year Olds, High Risk for Dyslexia

Our Unique Processes Offer a Wide Range of Help

Our transdisciplinary team, using our intensive treatment programs, are customized to meet the needs of the individual. The Morris Center serves students from kindergarten-age up through the college levels. Our programs are provided in one-on-one treatments, paired-instruction, small group tutoring, after-school classes, summer camps & more! We further provide an intensive treatment program that replaces school for several months and delivers what our clients most commonly call “life changing” results in 4 – 6 months!

NOW! Foundations of Speech, Language, Reading and Spelling®

This evidence-based program, backed by more than 15 years of randomized, controlled- trials research, is designed to improve phonological processing by helping the student  integrate four neuro-sensory systems in order to build an efficient process of discriminating speech sounds  in the spoken language, increasing phonological awareness. Scientists call this the “speech to print” approach to empower language and literacy skills, which is the same approach that all good readers must develop. This enhanced phonological awareness is then trained in relation to the alphabetic letters (again, a scientifically proven speech to print approach), which builds each client’s ability to explicitly differentiate each sound within words, including their number,  position,  similarities and differences, which then enables the client to know if they added, omitted, repeated, substituted, or reversed sounds in words when reading or spelling. Such enhanced phonological awareness, and consequent reading and spelling skills empower students to self-correct in reading, spelling and speaking.

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NOW! Mental Imagery for Language, Comprehension, Memory and Reasoning®

Building on the improved phonological awareness and auditory working memory established in the NOW! Foundations program, the research-based NOW! Mental Imagery program empowers your ability to better understand and remember spoken or written language.  Students  will develop their ability to  encode  and  recall complex strings of information, and learn to further manipulatewords  to create mental “movies” . This mental imagery treatment program successfully trains students of all ages in how to  create  mental imagery when reading, listening and thinking. These new skills can improve short-term memory, long-term memory, comprehension, reasoning and higher order problem-solving skills. Albert Einstein was well-known to use mental imagery to fully guide his reasoning and problem-solving. Once mental imagery skills are empowered to improve speaking and listening skills, a student wil be able  to read  using mental imagery which will improve their ability to write sentences, paragraphs, essays and research papers, which is the primary focus  of the next program.

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NOW! Grammar and Writing®

This research-based program takes the improved auditory working memory of NOW! Foundations and the improved mental imagery and comprehension skills of the NOW! Mental Imagery program and applies those empowered skills to a multi-sensory approach to writing. NOW! Grammar and Writing® uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic multisensory, structured and systematic training lessons to empower writing skills. Students are guided to fully understand the role of individual words in sentences (grammar) and how to concretely manipulate them  to change the meaning of sentences and  how to change the order of sentences to produce well-written paragraphs and the same for organizing paragraphs to create interesting, meaningful and vivid stories, research papers or essays.

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NOW! Math Concept Imagery®

A far more advanced skill than reading, spelling, writing and comprehension is a true “foreign language” called Mathematics. Math is the last of the four NOW! Programs(R) trained at a TMC clinic and builds on the three prior programs’ empowerments. NOW! Math Concept Imagery® uses a language-based approach to help students grasp and truly understand foundational math concepts. This enables the student to interpret, express and reason through math problems using both language skills and a full understanding of the numerical system. Students will progress from simple and concrete mathematical concepts to more abstract and formulaic aspects so they can excel in elementary, middle, high school or even college level math courses.

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Speech-Language Therapy

This therapy improves foundational language skills (phonological processing) that can cause learning difficulties like dyslexia. (Testing will determine if SLT is needed) This therapy can help with sounding out (decoding) words, spelling, and more.

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Occupational Therapy

OT provides specific instructive therapy that can assist clients in overcoming sensory processing difficulties. These sensory processing difficulties occur in approximately 50% of clients and may involve oral-motor and motor-planning difficulty, fine and gross motor delays, visual perception delays, sensory hypersensitivity, and/or somatosensory deficits (lack of body awareness).

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Psychiatry/Psychology/Neuropsychology

Our team of professionals will collaborate on and provide options for interventions which may or may not include medication for behavioral management of attention, mood or behavior disorders.

Each therapy hour, the client’s attention is monitored and reported. Non-pharmacological measures designed to maximize attention and arousal are integrated into all language and OT sessions. In cases where these do not suffice, medication may be recommended.

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LD & Dyslexia Testing

Testing is a multi-phase process to determine if you or your child are a good candidate for our range of services. The assessment process typically takes between two and ten weeks to complete and involves information gathering from various sources including testing, interviews, and meetings.

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Holistic Treatment from a Team of Transdisciplinary Professionals

For 35 years, The Morris Center has helped lead clients to better outcomes and brighter long-term futures through one-on-one, individually tailored treatments. Our research and clinical data repeatedly support the success of our intensive, transdisciplinary adult, adolescent, and pediatric treatment models. Equally important, the treatment outcomes are robust and typically long-term with little to no long-term follow-up required. These results are achieved thanks to our transdisciplinary team of caring professionals, each being experts in their field.

Client Testimonials about The Morris Center

From “frustrated” to honor roll

Watch this testimonial from a family of a middle school child with dyslexia, after completing the intensive treatment program at The Morris Center in Ocala, FL.