Where reading starts to click.
One-on-one support for elementary-age readers, drawing on a combination of evidence-based programs matched to how your child's reading brain works.
Trained in how reading actually works.
Kailey Webber, MA, ET/P runs Ed Therapy for You, working directly with elementary-age students on reading and reading-related skills. Sessions draw on a combination of evidence-based programs, matched to each student rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all curriculum.
The goal isn't just decoding on a page. It's building the underlying skills — phonological awareness, orthographic mapping, visual and auditory processing, and fluency — so reading stops being a daily struggle.
AET Professional Endorsement
Certified at the Professional level by the Association of Educational Therapists.
Evidence-Based Programs
Wilson Reading System, Orton-Gillingham, Seeing Stars, Visualizing and Verbalizing, Read Naturally, and PACE — drawn on individually or in combination, based on what each student needs.
A process built around your child, not a fixed script.
Educational therapy isn't a single program applied the same way to every student. It's an ongoing process that starts with real data and keeps adjusting as your child grows.
Assessment
I start by getting a clear, detailed picture of how your child reads, writes, and processes — identifying exactly where the breakdown is happening, not just that one exists.
Individualized Goals
From there, I build goals specific to your child — targeting the actual skills that need to develop, using the program or combination of programs that fits best.
Remediation
This is where the direct instruction happens — structured, individualized sessions that put the chosen programs into practice, using multisensory techniques and incorporating movement to target the specific skills each goal is built around.
Collaboration
I stay in communication with parents, teachers, and allied professionals like SLPs, OTs, and psychologists, so support stays consistent across school, home, and any other services your child receives.
Progress Monitoring
Progress gets tracked regularly, not assumed. As your child grows, goals and methods are adjusted to match — so the work never outpaces or lags behind where they actually are.
Reading is built in layers. We work through them in order.
No single program covers everything a struggling reader needs. Sessions combine structured literacy instruction with targeted work on the visual, auditory, and processing skills that reading depends on.
Sound Awareness
Hearing, isolating, and manipulating the sounds inside words — the foundation everything else is built on.
Decoding & Encoding
Connecting sounds to letters in both directions — reading words and spelling them with the same rules.
Orthographic Mapping
Moving words from "sounded out" to instantly recognized, so reading stops being effortful.
Fluency & Confidence
Building reading rate and expression, plus the confidence that comes from real progress.
Comprehension
Making sure decoding turns into real understanding — following ideas, making connections, and remembering what was read.
Processing Skills
Strengthening the visual and auditory processing that reading relies on.
If reading feels harder than it should, you're in the right place.
Educational therapy is a good fit for elementary-age students who show signs like:
- 1Shows a strong resistance to reading or writing
- 2Reading that's slow, choppy, or exhausting even when comprehension is strong
- 3Difficulty breaking a word apart into its sounds or blending sounds back together into a word
- 4Spelling that doesn't match how well a child can otherwise express ideas
- 5Progress that's stalled despite tutoring or extra practice at home
- 6A need for a slower, more explicit, multisensory pace than a classroom can offer
Kailey Webber, MA, ET/P
I grew up in Malibu, California, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of San Francisco with a degree in Kinesiology and Neuroscience. That's where a passion for the brain, and for how we learn and remember, really took hold.
From there I worked with students in both classroom and one-on-one settings before completing my master's degree in Educational Therapy at California State University, Northridge. I've now spent a decade working with students — and I still find the work as engaging as the day I started.
Outside of sessions, I'm usually keeping up with my energetic and lovable boxer, Olive, and spending time with my young daughter, Presley. When I get a spare moment, you'll probably find me cooking something new in the kitchen or trying out whatever the latest workout craze happens to be.
Let's talk about your child's reading.
Reach out directly, or send a note and I'll follow up to schedule a consultation.