Welcome to Full Circle Learning!
Full Circle Learning, a tailored and specialty educational service provided by Stephanie Fambrini, who offers a customized approach to ensure your child experiences success reaching their learning goals.
About Full Circle Learning
Stephanie Fambrini, founder of Full Circle Learning, is an Education Specialist with over 30 years experience working in the Bay Area community in a variety of educational settings. These include: Special Day Class educator, facilitating teacher & curriculum development and interim school director. Full Circle Learning arose out of Stephanie's dream to serve the unique needs of the whole child, integrating sensory, emotional and an academic intervention approach.
Stephanie holds a degree in Speech Pathology from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Special Education. She also holds three California teaching credentials which include; Multi-Subject Credential and two Special Education Credentials. She is experienced in working with children ages 5 to 18 with varied challenges and diagnoses, such as language based learning differences, which include dyslexia and dysgraphia, selective mutism, spectrum disorders, ADHD, and executive functioning based challenges. Stephanie's extensive training and experience has solidified her belief that when a child is truly seen as capable, they can then be available to access their learning. Stephanie firmly believes that "the key to accessing a child’s strengths, passions and potential, is to provide the optimal tools, skills, and individualized program to unlock their learning.”
Stephanie holds a degree in Speech Pathology from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Special Education. She also holds three California teaching credentials which include; Multi-Subject Credential and two Special Education Credentials. She is experienced in working with children ages 5 to 18 with varied challenges and diagnoses, such as language based learning differences, which include dyslexia and dysgraphia, selective mutism, spectrum disorders, ADHD, and executive functioning based challenges. Stephanie's extensive training and experience has solidified her belief that when a child is truly seen as capable, they can then be available to access their learning. Stephanie firmly believes that "the key to accessing a child’s strengths, passions and potential, is to provide the optimal tools, skills, and individualized program to unlock their learning.”
Testimonials
"After years of slow literacy progress, Stephanie was able to unlock my son's reading potential within a few weeks of intervention. She is a nurturing and experienced specialist who presumes competence with her students, giving them the confidence and tools to progress. We are forever grateful for the impact she has made on our son's life." ~ Kira C
"Stephanie is a truly gifted teacher and a gift to our family. She takes a whole child, strengths based approach to working with students. What makes Stephanie unique is that she not only has deep knowledge of learning differences and expert skills to support diverse learners, she also understands that children learn best when they feel understood and are regulated. Stephanie uses her innate talent and decades of experience to combine therapeutic exercises with academic work tailored to our children's needs to help them reach their learning goals - that combination is powerful! Our children have made incredible progress academically and their confidence has skyrocketed as a result of working with Stephanie. She is a true champion and advocate for our children and not only works with us, but also with our children's entire learning and support team, often of her own volition. Stephanie puts her whole heart into her work and is a treasure to students and parents. "
- Courtney D.
"Stephanie Fambrini is a resourceful, experienced, and dedicated Educational Specialist. For years, I have personally watched Stephanie teach children a plethora of learning skills along with social and emotional strategies, including PluckyWize. Using her expertise, creativity, and enthusiasm, Stephanie helps her students develop confidence, social awareness and a wide range of success skills. In addition, Stephanie weaves a fun, playful, and creative energy into her work with her students that helps them reach their goals. "
~ Robin O’Heeron, Ph.D Founder, PluckyWize
Services & Academic Programs
SERVICES:
● Reading assessment individualized for a child’s specific needs. ● Individualized Integrated Evidence Based Reading and Writing Programs designed to meet the unique, developing needs of your child, which will optimally support reading development, confidence and learning enjoyment. ● 60 minute sessions tailored to a child’s specific reading and learning profile. ● Scheduled parent and teacher consultation.● Individualized home learning spaces customized to a child’s unique profile to promote skill transition, executive functioning development, and independence.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:● LiPS® assessment and program.The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program develops phonemic awareness, reading, spelling, and speech. Instruction which focuses on labeling oral-motor movements of phonemes, paired with letter symbols, identifying number, and sequence of sounds in words. ● Seeing Stars® Program, Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, and Spelling, is a symbol imagery program, with the goal to develop the ability to correctly visualize or image letters in words and connect the image to sounds. ● The Visualizing and Verbalizing® Program for Language Comprehension and Thinking, develops the ability to create an imagined or imaged picture from language as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking.● Each scaffolded program is individualized, integrating optimal tools, to fit a child’s unique and changing learning needs.
If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.~ O. Ivar Lovaas
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:● LiPS® assessment and program.The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program develops phonemic awareness, reading, spelling, and speech. Instruction which focuses on labeling oral-motor movements of phonemes, paired with letter symbols, identifying number, and sequence of sounds in words. ● Seeing Stars® Program, Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, and Spelling, is a symbol imagery program, with the goal to develop the ability to correctly visualize or image letters in words and connect the image to sounds. ● The Visualizing and Verbalizing® Program for Language Comprehension and Thinking, develops the ability to create an imagined or imaged picture from language as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking.● Each scaffolded program is individualized, integrating optimal tools, to fit a child’s unique and changing learning needs.
If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.~ O. Ivar Lovaas
Learning Support Tools
● Perceptual Enrichment Program®, non-academic program that helps students master early cognitive and developmental concepts necessary for creative thinking and problem solving through use of varied scaffolded activities. ● Brain Gym®, exercises to awaken the brain for learning readiness.● S’cool Moves for Learning®, activities designed to create strong academic foundations borrowing from therapy, behavioral optometry, and neuroscience techniques. ● Bal-A-Vis-X®, Rhythmic Balance/Auditory/Vision eXercises for Brain and Brain-Body Integration, all of which are deeply rooted in rhythm. Using sand-filled bags and racquetballs, these exercises address visual tracking deficiency, auditory imprecision, impulsivity, balance and anxiety issues. ● Therapeutic Listening Program®, Gearshifters/Quickshifts, a group of sound-based tools that were developed out of a sensory integrative treatment framework to facilitate functional improvement in a variety of areas that may affect an individual at home, school, work, or in the community.What to Expect:
● Schedule initial phone consultation with Stephanie ● Follow up with scheduled in person visit for your child ● If applicable; provide assessments/reports regarding your child’s learning profile, these could include: Your child’s current Individual Education Plan (IEP), Speech Therapy Evaluation, Occupational Therapy Evaluation, or Neuropsychological Evaluation ● Discuss optimal intervention program for your child