karen nancarrow
owner / director

EDUCATION
  • Bachelor of Arts (French & Psychology)
  • Bachelor of Education (Special Education and Technology)
  • Additional Qualifications: Specialist in Special Education; Reading
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • ​​Remediating dyslexia and spelling
  • Assistive technology
  • Learning disabilities
  • Autism / ABA
  • Advanced Energy Healing (3-year program)
  • Mindfulness for children
  • Behaviour difficulties
  • Parent coaching
  • Executive Functioning
  • Assessment
  • Self-Advocacy
EXPERIENCE
  • Professor at Conestoga College - Educational Support Program
  • 25 years of experience working with kids with Learning Disabilities, Autism and a variety of special needs
  • Learning Disabilities Itinerant Teacher for the Waterloo Region District School Board (22 years)​
  • Lead teacher for Corrective Reading intervention program for public school board
  • Mentor teachers in working with children with Learning Disabilities, Behavioural concerns, Autism​ 
  • Teaches Assistive Technology to students, parents and teachers
  • Has helped many parents learn to advocate for their child within the school system 
  • Past President of the Autism Society, Cambridge, Ontario
  • Past President of the largest volunteer tutoring and outreach program in Canada (Tutoring for African Canadian and Mi'kmaw Children)

Heather and Danita
learning strategists

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Education: 
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Education
Master of Education

Additional Teaching Qualifications:  
Specialist in Special Education
ESL Part 1
​​​Primary - Junior - Intermediate (JK - 10)

Highly Specialized Training: 
Google Read & Write, Empower, Corrective Reading, Early Literacy Intervention, Assessment, Assistive Technology, Executive Functioning, Giftedness, Learning Disabilities, Behaviour
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Education:  
Bachelor of Arts
​Bachelor of Education

Additional Teaching Qualifications:  
Primary Specialist
Reading Specialist
​Primary-Junior (JK-6)

Highly Specialized Training:  
Lexia, Dreambox, Google Read & Write, Corrective Reading, Empower Reading, Assessment, Assistive Technology, Learning Disabilities, Autism, Executive Functioning

Eve
​Manager

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Eve is a certified Primary-Junior teacher and is excited to work with you! She has taught at a private school in Ottawa, and spent the last six years raising two children and running a successful educational home childcare.

She teaches English as a Second Language to students in China and enjoys reading, hiking, and learning about different cultures.

Eve has a passion for learning and is driven to help others succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. She is looking forward to ensuring that you and your child have a positive and successful experience at Indigo Tutoring! 

Kristina
Assessment / Literacy Specialist

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Education:
Master of Education 
​Bachelor of Arts 

Additional Qualifications: 
Professionally certified Educational Therapist; IDA Dyslexia Specialist; AOGPE Associate  


Areas of Expertise
  • Remediating dyslexia and spelling
  • Assistive technology
  • Learning disabilities
  • Autism/ABA
  • ACT mindfulness for children
  • Behaviour difficulties
  • Executive Functioning
  • Assessment
 
Experience
  • 20+ years of experience working with adults and children with Learning Disabilities, Autism, and other learning exceptionalities
  • Educational Therapist both privately and through learning centres in British Columbia and Ontario
  • Lexercise teletherapist
  • WRDSB SEAC representative for Autism Ontario
  • Workshop training and professional development for literacy intervention
  • ONBIDA volunteer writer/editor

our tutors

All of our tutors go through a rigorous screening process and interview, have a police check for the vulnerable sector and have full access to our Director and thousands of resources that we house.  You're in good hands!

Our tutors can meet you in your home, at a convenient nearby location or they can tutor online too!
Looking to join our awesome team?  Click here.