Alpha

Hi! I’m Alpha. I am a Learning Specialist and special educator providing private instruction for students of all ages, from four-year-olds to adults. 

I am a Literacy, Math, and Learning Processes Specialist, and over the past 20+ years, I have worn many hats at the prestigious Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, from clinician to Regional Manager of ForSchools to lead Professional Development Presenter. I am well-versed in Seeing Stars, Visualizing and Verbalizing, LiPS, Talkies, and On Cloud Nine (Imagery for Math).

Throughout my career, I’ve partnered with school districts in seven states, providing professional development to classroom teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, and educational therapists at more than 30 schools. I have worked extensively with remote Indigenous communities facing significant literacy challenges, most notably schools in “Bush” Alaska and on Navajo reservations in New Mexico.

I specialize in developing the underlying imagery necessary to remediate difficulties in reading, comprehension, mathematics, language processing, and executive functioning. In addition to foundational academic remediation, I utilize a metacognitive “learning how to learn” approach that helps students better understand how they process information, why certain strategies are effective, and how to apply those strategies more independently over time. I support students in building executive functioning skills such as organization, planning, task initiation, pacing, prioritization, self-monitoring, flexible thinking, and follow-through within the context of their real academic demands and schoolwork.

Because I have worked with learners across all developmental stages—from young children to adults—and trained educators in a wide range of school settings, I am able to tailor support thoughtfully to each student’s unique profile, strengths, and challenges. My experience allows me to identify where breakdowns in learning, processing, organization, and output are occurring while helping students build practical systems, stronger self-awareness, resilience, and long-term independence as learners.

I work with students diagnosed with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, executive functioning needs, Autism Spectrum Disorder, CAPD, Cerebral Palsy, and Hyperlexia. I now live in the Valley in Los Angeles, offering process-based instruction to students across the county.

When I’m not leading instruction, I’m either spending time with my spunky five-year-old daughter or producing independent film projects.