Jean C. Tucker & Associates, LLC
provides communication and educational services to children, adolescents and adults.

Jean has retired from a full practice after 20 years of training in, and using research-based treatment and instructional curricula. She continues to conduct trainings in several of the programs she has used, consults with other professionals in the field, and, most importantly, works with others to develop more efficient methods of teaching written/spoken language skills.

Jean's associates are teachers and clinicians who work independently, who are well-trained, and who subscribe to the philosophy of fitting programs to the needs of each student and to learning and applying new research-based approaches and techniques.

Research into various programs continues to be  motivated by the need to find the best treatment/ instructional approaches for students, especially for those who have not achieved success in standard remedial programs.

Her experience has led to the understanding that children are most likely to catch up with their peers when they learn to learn in the same way as children without difficulties.  When skills and knowledge are secure, students are confident rather than resigned to an inability to learn.

Jean believes that the goal of instructional programs should be to have each student: 1) perform communication and academic tasks at an independent level; 2) function in a regular classroom; and/or 3) perform at a level matching his or her intellectual ability which could be above grade level.

Skills/Programs

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Click here for a FREE download of A Teacher’s Guide to the Alphabetic Principle.

Click here to download an order form to purchase Essential Word-Knowledge Skills mentioned below.

Elizabeth Haughton and Jean Tucker have published a program encompassing the elements which they have used successfully in teaching students to read and spell. 

Essential Word-Knowledge Skills:  Teaching a Sight-Word Vocabulary and the Necessary Underlying Skills Simultaneously.
Essential Word-Knowledge Skills is a resource for teachers and clinicians who are looking for effective techniques and curricular materials to help children through the beginning steps of developing word knowledge, as well as to help children and adults who have not mastered written language skills.  Essential Word-Knowledge Skills combines phonetic analysis, a technique by which the explicit correspondence between the spelling of a word and the sounds of the word if spoken (its phonetic representation) is obtained, with word-knowledge learning and fluency training. 

The use of phonetic analysis training as well as fluency training (Precision Teaching) enables students to learn to read the way skilled readers learn, that is, through being able to apply the alphabetic principle efficiently.
One of the attributes of the English language is that it has so many more words than most other languages.  There is no way to teach all of the words skilled readers are able to read; learners must develop the ability to apply the alphabetic principle, thus, becoming skilled readers.  When teachers provide children with the phonetic analysis of words that are being learned, teachers are providing the "gift" that talented, skilled readers have.