InSight Learning Clinic

Specialties

The goal of the InSight Learning Clinic is to identify learning challenges in children and provide research-​based interventions that use visual strengths to improve academic and social skills — especially listening, reading, speaking and writing.

Research shows that the number one skill required for effective learning and social interactions is listening, and that students are required to listen for up to 95% of their school day.

But…

Some students with high-​visual skills can also possess hidden language deficits

Students who demonstrate competent, even exceptional, speaking skills can also possess underlying weaknesses in auditory processing skills

Hidden or unrecognized visual skills can go undetected and under-​utilized as a learning mode

Verbal tests often underestimate visual intelligence which can lead to children and others incorrectly believing they are unintelligent

Meet the Business Owner

Beth W.

Business Owner

Beth Walters (Ed.D) graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in English. For more than 10 years she taught elementary and middle school students in private schools in Tennessee and California. She later received her master’s degree in Elementary Education from the University of Phoenix – Bay Area, along with a single-​subject credential in English-​Language Arts (2005). In 2010, she received a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from Saint Mary’s College of California conducting action research in instructional methods to improve listening skills in children with over-​functioning visual abilities. In 2010, she received the Carolyn Coakley-​Hickerson Scholarship Award from the International Listening Association. Recently she taught Developmental Psychology of Children at Amador Valley High School and served on the Las Positas-​Tri Valley Regional Occupation Program Child Development Advisory Board.