About Christine Boehling & BeeSmart Concepts...
Having raised six children and watched over their development, I became interested in learning styles. After a period of classroom volunteering, I began in-service training in Language Fundamentals at Riverside School, a school primarily for dyslexic children. in Richmond, Virginia. Following my training I became certified by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Educator's and Practitioners and after nine years of service at Riverside School as a Language Fundamentals tutor, I began my private practice and traveled to schools in the Richmond area.
Tutoring in the high achieving private schools was a new challenge as my students were often beaten by a day in the classroom. Consequently, I designed games to re-enforce mastery of the skills necessary to develop fluency in reading and spelling. I have been using these games for the past ten years and know that the games have been a major component in keeping the interest of my students as well as developing mastery.
After 20 years in the profession, I am publishing my games which were designed to be portable for tutors, compact for teachers, and available with instructions for parents. Most of the time, depending on the skill of the players, the games can be played in 5 minutes. The games are designed to be sequential, multi-sensory, explicit and cumulative, which is the Orton-Gillingham method. These games have been used by other professionals in the Richmond area and have been found to be diagnostic, therapeutic and prescriptive.
