Most educational/tutor centers are unable to employ licensed professionals with expertise in their fields of study; Successfully improving reading, spelling, language, sensory/motor, visual, writing and comprehension abilities are VERY complex skills that are not easily improved by a layperson or even an educator.
40% of these students were staffed out of ESE/Special Ed services after treatment at The Morris Center; nationally, only 5% of students with an IEP/Special Education services ever leave their special classes and graduate to return to regular education classes.
Most tutoring/educational centers have no research evidence that their methods actually work. The few centers that do have some research cannot show improvements similar to those achieved by The Morris Center.
This equates to an improvement of 22-28 standard score points in only a few months of treatment.The Morris Center’s methods target the likely cause of the learning difficulties and do NOT teach compensatory skills for working around weaker skills/abilities. Many educational/tutoring clinics report average gains of only 5-7 standard score points, less than a one fourth of the gains typically achieved at The Morris Center.
Most tutoring/educational centers have never attempted to help such severely impaired individuals and have not published such treatment results in professional, peer-reviewed journals. The Morris Center employs staff with experience in treatment across all demographics of the population.
It is the combination of the expertise of the team, the shared model, highly individualized treatment plans that are based on assessment results, and the caliber of the research-based treatment programs that help clients of The Morris Center to produce remarkable and long-lasting gains. Most educational/tutoring centers do not have licensed professionals and cannot offer integrated treatment services.
The Morris Center has created and perfected the NOW! Programs and we are able to seamlessly adapt the program to the needs of each client.
Many of our past clients or parents of past clients are more than happy to speak directly with prospective clients of The Morris Center to share their personal experience and long-term outcomes of the positive treatment effects from The Morris Center’s professional team.
Recent research indicates that 50-70% of children with language-based learning difficulties will also have ADHD and/or sensory motor/sensory processing difficulties. Co-treating learning difficulties, attention difficulties and sensory motor/sensory processing difficulties can be accomplished through an integrated treatment program at The Morris Center. Educational/tutoring centers do not have licensed professionals and cannot provide co-treatment of these other difficulties. ADHD and sensory motor/sensory processing difficulties can interfere with treatment success, unless they are also successfully treated with research-based methods.
The Morris Center can operate as an a la carte provider of services. Most tutoring/educational centers have either a “one size fits all” or a limited range of corporate treatment programs that have not been evaluated by peer-reviewed research professionals or published in professional research journals.
Recent English-speaking clients have come to The Morris Center not just from Florida, but across the United States, but also internationally, including Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago. The Morris Center welcomes the diversity.
