Reading Therapy Center LLC

Reading Therapy Center LLC is a speech therapist in Willmar, Minnesota. The center works with children and adults who struggle with reading, writing, comprehension, language and math, and its services include evaluation and intensive, one-to-one therapy sessions. Its areas of specialty include dyslexia, mathematics, writing, comprehension and language. Dyslexia is described as affecting one in five students and accounting for 80 to 90 percent of students with learning disabilities. The center notes that the earlier a child begins treatment, the greater the gains, and that students come to it when classroom and special education approaches have not been enough. It holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The Reading Therapy Center was established in Willmar in 2003 by Susan Meyer, who had spent 30 years as a speech therapist in schools and wanted to create a place offering individualized remediation alongside schools and other agencies. A second location opened in Moorhead in 2009; since 2021 the two offices have been independently run while continuing to collaborate. Students' underlying processing difficulties are addressed using the Lindamood-Bell, Discover Meaning, RTC Math and Reading Therapy Center remedial programs. The RTC Math program has students use language, concrete manipulatives and mental imagery to understand math concepts, learning to think and talk about numbers and relate concepts to one another. Sessions are one-to-one and intensive, and the center distinguishes itself from a traditional tutoring center by working to change how an individual's brain processes information. Clients travel from Willmar, Moorhead and outlying communities in Minnesota and North Dakota, with some traveling one to two hours daily for services.

The Willmar office sits on 1st Street South, near the junction with Litchfield Avenue Southwest. Rice Memorial Hospital and the Willmar Fire Station are both about 0.2 miles away, and Centre Point Mall is roughly 0.3 miles from the office.

Families in Willmar seeking intensive, individualized help with dyslexia, math, writing, comprehension and language difficulties have had a dedicated center in their city since 2003.