The reach to a box of cereal, the grasp of a spoon, the strumming gesture across a guitar, the point toward a door by a character in a play. These…
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Our lease is ending at the end of July, and I have elected not to renew it. I plan to close the Fluency Factory at the end of June this…
We aim to have every student become a fully competent reader at or frequently well above 200 words per minute. The successful journeys of these two young women are an…
At the Fluency Factory we’ve seen children using all manner of bad ways to hold their pencils. At least one has even developed carpal tunnel syndrome. This can really destroy…
Of Ricky, Terry Harris, and Meeting the Haughton’s at Data Sharing Meet Ricky Ricky was nonverbal, and when I met him he was 16. He had lived in the backyard…
We have serviced many families in our community and have some unlikely success stories. James is one of those students. In 2002 His mom was looking for an activity to…
I have played both Chess and Checkers. Both games are fun, and now you can lose to a computer playing either. Checkers has been a “solved game” for a long…
One of our students, let’s call her Rose, has flourished all summer. Every week she has grown stronger, more able in everything she works on. Her successes have brought her…
Nothing tells this story better than the emails I have received over the past now almost ten years, beginning with this first one, which mentions Karen Pryor, a goddess of…
We lived in Cambridge before we moved to Hingham. During that time three of my four daughters attended Parents Nursery School, a school that opened in 1947. It is a…