Learning Differences

McMillan Education brings considerable expertise to the area of understanding and working with students who have a wide variety of learning profiles. If your child is a student with a learning disorder, such as ADHD and dyslexia, we use this deep knowledge to guide you to the school or college with programs that effectively support those particular needs. If your child is a gifted student who requires an educational setting that both values intellectual gifts and supports skill development, we are uniquely positioned to facilitate that match as well.

Some of our students experience significant obstacles to learning and come to us with a formal diagnosis of learning difficulties. Some come to us struggling with particular aspects of learning they do not fully understand and we are able to guide them toward deeper self-knowledge regarding their challenges and empower them through discovering alternative, appropriate educational choices.

We understand that helping you develop insight into your child’s unique learning profile is critical to discovering schools or colleges where your child can excel relative to his or her particular strengths. We take a distinctively asset-focused approach to working with your family because we know firsthand that students are most successful when engaged in learning through their distinctive cognitive strengths.

Our expertise has led to us being asked to train teachers at independent schools to work more effectively with students with distinctive learning profiles. We have also taught aspiring educators and counselors at the college and graduate level on a range of learning-related topics and regularly speak in regional and national conferences on learning differences.