The Reading Room

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About

Orton-Gillingham-based reading therapy and diagnostic testing for learners ages four through adult anchors The Reading Room on Center Drive in La Mesa, a private literacy clinic founded in 1995. The practice holds International Dyslexia Association and International Literacy Association memberships and is led by a clinician with a Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University joint doctoral program in reading education, bringing university-grade research methodology to the same La Mesa literacy ecosystem supported by La Mesa Branch Library. Diagnostic services include standardized assessment of phonological processing, visual and auditory processing, and reading comprehension, identifying root causes of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADD/ADHD-related reading difficulty. A second clinician certified in the Orton-Gillingham approach through the same SDSU-Claremont doctoral pipeline expands the practice's capacity for structured-literacy intervention, bridging the gap between early-childhood phonics instruction at Sparrow Academy and formal academic reading standards. The clinic's most complex cases involve multi-modal intervention protocols integrating phonemic-awareness retraining, morphological-analysis exercises, and fluency-building passages calibrated to Lexile-level precision.