We are dedicated to helping each of our students realize their full potential for learning and life.
The Literacy and Language Center is a local educational center based in the Sunset District of San Francisco. We use multisensory, research based programs to develop an individualized plan to address difficulties in reading, spelling, writing, verbal expression, comprehension, critical thinking, and study skills. We work in a supportive one-to-one learning environment that promotes growth in acade
12/06/2022
This Saturday and next Monday Amber Lamprecht will be speaking in a webinar with Chino Baluyut about strategies, practices, and ways to boost Reading Comprehension. If you are interested in this topic, join us for this free webinar! Please visit sentencecenter.com to participate and learn with us on either 12/10/22 or 12/12/22!
10/20/2022
Join our free interactive webinar: How to Get your Kids into Reading. Sign up at bit.ly/readwebi
Friends of the Literacy and Language Center,
It is with heavy hearts that we announce that the Literacy and Language Center will be closing its door for business on May 1, 2019. After helping nearly 700 local children to read, speak, write, and listen more effectively over 12.5 years, we are truly proud of how we’ve been a part of the San Francisco educational community. We have made it a goal to offer our customized, multi-sensory, research-based approach in literacy remediation to the entire community, regardless of their socio-economic circumstances.
The challenge of offering our services was always contingent on a highly-trained, compassionate, and reliable tutoring staff that in the last few years has grown much harder to find. In a general sense, the Bay Area has a well-documented ‘teach shortage’ that the recent Oakland teacher’s strike has highlighted. Other school districts in California but outside of the City pay significantly more than San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, or Oakland. This has negatively affected our staffing in that qualified teachers are often moving out of the city in order to buy houses or not work 2-5 jobs just to pay their basic housing costs. Most of us at the Literacy and Language Center have been trying to make this work for ourselves for many years. However, we have lost many staff members to last-minute teaching offers, creating a challenge to the running of the daily operations for the business. With this consistent challenge in place, selling the business wasn’t an option, as well. This has been a long process for us to finding solutions, and with the community changing rapidly in contrary directions. Certainly, the need for our services in the community has remained unwavering, and unfortunately, continues after we close.
As we wrap up our final days of service, we have been seeking other referrals in the area. Many other centers such as ours have closed as this staffing issue is a bit of an epidemic within educational therapy and tutoring centers in San Francisco. We are referring folks to Lindamood Bell Learning Processes on Union Street in San Francisco and Berkeley.
We wish you all a future filled with deep reading and listening, rich with expression and positivity. Because we all have had such an epic journey in teaching students in such poignant and incredible ways during our time here, we will all be moving forward in the work, never ceasing to find ways to assist others in seeing the beauty in reading and connecting through language. For now, may we all meet again in the pages of our favorite pieces of literature.
Most sincerely,
Amber Lamprecht
CEO, Co-Founder, Clinic Director
Literacy and Language Center, Inc.
11/01/2018
We believe in the Power of Movement of the LLC!! This article shows one reason why, but our students love how learning is more fun with fun Movement Breaks that help the student maintain their focus.
10/25/2018
Please join the city of San Francisco's One City One Book program and pick up the 2017 award-winning graphic novel by Thi Bui about the journey her Vietnamese family experienced in coming to the USA. We can't put this one down!
https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2001079801
10/17/2018
Snacks for Education Success by Helle Sun, Literacy and Language Consultant and Case Manager
http://literacyandlanguagecenter.com/snacks-for-education-success-by-helle-sun-literacy-and-language-consultant-and-case-manager/
Many of our students need snacks to help them think and make progress. Sometimes, though, snacks can work in the opposite direction and can harm the learning process. We recommend foods that boost thinking, such as the ones mentioned here by our spectacular Consultant and Case manager, Helle!
Snacks for Education Success by Helle Sun, Literacy and Language Consultant and Case Manager | Literacy and Language Center Snacks for Education Success by Helle Sun, Literacy and Language Consultant and Case Manager by Literacy and Language Center Media | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Hungry students have a hard time learning! Snacks can be critical for ensuring that students are able to get the most from th...
08/11/2018
Spotlight Television – SLTV – Amber Lamprecht
https://vimeo.com/254776031
On Sat 7/28/18 Fox Business at 1 pm PST (4 pm EST) on ‘Spotlight’ Amber Lamprecht was interviewed about the work at the Literacy and Language Center!
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07/28/2018
Today Sat 7/28/18 on Fox Business at 1 pm PST (4 pm EST) on ‘Spotlight’ Amber Lamprecht will be interviewed about the work at the Literacy and Language Center! Tune in and check it out!
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Come see what makes us different at the LLC. We'll let you in on a secret: it's about passion, joy, and doing what works for children.
04/19/2018
In honor of National Autism Awareness Month, here is an excellent reminder of how to BeFAAB when you're communicating with people on the spectrum!