Jacalyn Stewart is the proud owner and facilitator at Lifelong Learning Solutions in Santa Barbara, California. As a licensed Davis Dyslexia facilitator and owner of Lifelong Learning Solutions, she is honored to help clients thrive, remove blocks, elevate confidence, discover their inner genius, take responsibility for their learning, become curious lifelong learners…
Having experience as a credentialed classroom teacher and homeschool educator, Jacalyn has witnessed many individuals challenged with Dyslexia and Dyslexia related challenges. Davis Dyslexia Programs are transformational! Children and adults master once difficult or impossible skills, regain self-confidence, rediscover their inner spark to learn, fine-tune executive functioning skills, reach goals, apply responsibility, and make lifelong changes in their lives.
Guiding, sharing hope, and providing solutions - true solutions that last a lifetime is what Jacalyn loves to do!
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Licensed since: January 30, 2020
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Travel: I am willing to travel to clients
Online services: I coach online or in person
Delivery Languages: EnglishEnglish
Kaylee, Age 10 - "We love Ms Jacalyn!! We were lucky to have Kaylee go through the reading program for dyslexia and she made amazing, life changing progress with Ms Jacalyn. She is so patient, kind and knows her stuff. We are so grateful!! We can't thank Jacalyn enough for giving K the tools we have been desperately looking for to help K become an excellent reader! We've tried other methods that didn't work for her and she found them frustrating and time consuming. In the 5 days, she went from a 2nd/3rd grade reading level to a 6th grade reading level. Seeing and hearing her read the final day, brought tears to my eyes!!! We are SOOO beyond grateful to Jacalyn and the Davis Program for this amazing gift."
- J L
Kayla, 11 years old -"Kayla’s confidence and general happiness and joy during school have greatly improved. She now enjoys and looks forward to reading books at or near her grade level. She can now figure out when her dial is too high and needs a break. She also has become more open and willing to share her ideas and thoughts, answers, and questions, and even become more descriptive in her writing and retelling stories. I love that she now can tell when she’s off and catches her mistakes with a smile instead of tears."
N.P. Mother
My hope is for every child with the learning challenges of Dyslexia to have the opportunity to realize their unique gifts. Jacalyn’s compassionate teaching and specialized program (Davis Dyslexia Program) at LifeLong Learning Solutions has been a ‘sea of change’ for my child. To be witness to this comprehensive transformation is simply invaluable. Jacalyn is a treasure in our community.
Kristiina - After contracting Covid in December of 2020, I realized that I had some comprehension difficulties to add to the list of ongoing strangeness that was my “normal”. Now in my 50s, I was still trying to finish my AA in college - never really feeling like I was learning and constantly searching for the right career path. I had lost my job as a budget analyst due to Covid, leaving me depressed and uncertain about my future. I had struggled with anxiety, panic attacks, stomach issues, and social anxiety among other issues for years. While I was taking the extra time I had to finish my AA and figure out what was going on with me, I stumbled upon a link to Ronald Davis’ “The Gift of Dyslexia”.
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I had always thought Dyslexia was only reading letters or numbers backwards. This had occurred, but not to the extent that I identified with this condition. Once I started reading through what dyslexia actually entailed, I realized that I had many of the characteristics. For years I struggled with pronunciation, I was considered “shy” but I was actually terrified of speaking improperly or having “strange” ideas. My now adult children and husband always helped me when I was explaining something and could not think of the right word, where we had gone, or the name of a person. I would make up “nicknames” for things so I could remember them. I never remembered sequences for processes and in a career of accounting/bookkeeping I was constantly reviewing post-it’s and notes for the correct order even though I had done it many times. I had been successfully employed all of my life, but I could never get ahead in my accounting career because of these issues. So, in my excitement of the possibility that there could be a solution, I reached out to Jacalyn for help. Within a month, I was at her lovely location and ready to spend eight hours a day for six days to figure out just what exactly I had and methods to work with this condition.
Katelyn, 12 years old - I have some amazing news I would like to share with you regarding Katelyn’s progress… she’s jumped 80 points in her reading program! We are so proud of her and it all has to do with the hard work she has done with you! Words can’t express enough how grateful I am she was able to do this program with you. Not only has her reading score increased but she has a new found confidence and it has made its presence in all of her classes. She lets me know that she’s nailed a comprehension test, she’s also become a lot more passionate and reflective about what she’s learning in history. It’s been a wonderful transition!
