August 2015
Hero Journey – How One Child Started Our Company
This is dedicated to a lovely mother and wife, whom I first met in 1996; as a young girl. Little did I know then, she would change my life forever. Her mother started a [...]
March 2004
Structure of Intellect
People who struggle with learning often have holes in their education. These holes from misunderstood or confused concepts, missing skills, and inadequate experience cannot be filled by the maturation process or by standard curriculum. Structure [...]
March 2002
Audiblox foundational skills
While useful for older children and adults; we needed a sequential memory program that could be used with groups of students interactively and Renie left again for training in South Africa in a program called [...]
March 2001
Selecting Advanced Brain’s The Listening Program
Selecting Advanced Brain's The Listening Program, she and her staff learned about the impact of sound on the nervous system, mind, and body. Now we had a way to help those students who tried to [...]
March 1999
The Tomatis method discovered
Within the first year Renie found students who neither her Orton-Gillingham based reading programs nor Ron Davis’s program achieved desired goals. Again, she had a few students without substantial gains. While in Singapore, working with [...]
Dyslexia training progress and rewards
During training, it was a struggle for Renie to realize that people who process symbols as objects and need a clear picture of the concept of symbols cannot read well until the confusions are controlled [...]
March 1998
Dyslexia training with Ron Davis
Still searching, Renie looked at every program she could find that worked with Dyslexia. She found a program based on an idea she had never heard of before. The idea that some children and adults [...]
Meadowbrook Educational Services started in 1998
Greatly encouraged at finding both the solution for her son (he was removed from special education classes for the rest of his high school career) and others she officially started Meadowbrook Educational Services in 1998 [...]
March 1996
Renie enrolls in the Total Reading program
Offered the opportunity for training in Spalding - Renie continued to educate herself in the field of reading programs. She enrolled in the Total Reading program which she used in school as well as with [...]
July 1994
Moving to Spokane
Moving to Spokane Washington in 1994, Renie continued volunteering in her son's school. She assessed Kindergarten children using the Slingerland Assessment and formed a reading club after school for local students who struggled with reading. [...]
March 1994
Enrolled in the second level training for Slingerland
With her son entering a new school district and grade level (fourth grade), Renie knew he needed more knowledge so she enrolled in the second level training for Slingerland and resigned herself to doing extra [...]
January 1994
Still searching for help
Still searching for help, Renie took him to Hope Clinic in Bellvue where he was placed on an eye-vision therapy program and ADD-biofeedback. Again, there were small gains, but not the amount of change that [...]
July 1992
Slingerland training used to help children
Renie continued volunteering in her youngest son's classrooms as he began public school. She used what she had learned through Orton-Gillingham to help children with learning language. All of her experience did not help her [...]
October 1986
Renie honored with Parent of the Year
Renie was honored for her volunteering in local schools with a “Parent of the Year” award for 1984-1985.
March 1985
Renie volunteers as art docent
Renie volunteered as an art docent through the University of Washington's Art Marks program - to engage children in an understanding of art and encourage their creativity. She observed that some of the most creative [...]
July 1976
Renie has spent years learning about children who struggle
Renie has spent years learning about children who struggle. She began her search in the late 1970’s to help her own family. She started with long-distance Orton-Gillingham consulting for her nieces and nephews - she [...]