Reading Explorers
Reading Explorers is a fun, literacy-based, play-group for 4-6 year old children and their parents. Children and their parents will enjoy using stories, music, and multi-sensory activities to learn letters, their corresponding sounds, and how to blend these sounds together to read words. This research-based program is perfect for parents interested in providing their child with a strong foundation of reading skills necessary for academic success. This program is designed for those families with busy lives. Just come and have fun with your child! Let me prepare all the materials you need to provide your child with a rich learning experience! Your child will have words they can read by your second session!!
Speech- Language Therapy
Speech-language therapy services are also available. These services can address a range of speech, language, social communication, and cognitive-communication disorders in young children.
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Speech Disorders – Does your child have difficulty producing specific speech sounds? (e.g. /r/ in rock or the /l/ in lake)
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Phonological Disorders – Does your child have difficulty with speech patterns? (e.g., omits /s/ in words like snake, star, smoke and spot)
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Language Disorders – Does your child have trouble understanding others or following directions? Does your child struggle to use vocabulary, share ideas or express his/her feelings?
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Social Communication Disorders – Does your child have trouble with the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication? Does your child struggle to respond to greetings, take turns in a conversation or listen to the ideas of others?
Speech-Language therapy focuses on fun learning through children’s literacy, play and hands-on experiences. Activities are rich in communication opportunities, learning choices, and sensory motor exploration.
Jennifer Kordonowy, MA, CCC/SLP graduated with her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Wichita State University in 1994. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in Communication with an emphasis in public relations and advertising. She has worked extensively in early childhood classrooms for over twenty years and was named Clinician of the Year by the Kansas Speech-Language Hearing Association in 2000. Over the course of her career, she has served in a wide range of settings including early childhood classrooms, elementary schools, middle schools, and hospitals in Kansas. She has specialized in the literacy development of preschoolers and growing the communication skills of nonverbal children. For six years, she co-taught in an early childhood disabilities classroom in Clearwater, Kansas for the Sedgwick County Special Education Cooperative where she developed extensive tools and materials for developmentally appropriate reading instruction for preschoolers.
In 2004, Jennifer was hired as the Program Director of the Kaleidoscope Preschool at Wichita State University where she worked for thirteen years building an inclusive early childhood program for children of all abilities. Here Jennifer trained graduate and undergraduate students from the departments of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, Early Childhood Education, and Music Education. During this time, Jennifer also trained parents in techniques for literacy instruction in the home. In 2007, this work was formally launched into the Reading Explorers program. Since 2015, Jennifer has continued to develop the Reading Explorers program in her clinic where she is passionately invested in helping parents to inspire their children to explore the world of letters, sounds and books!
Jennifer is
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a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence
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a member of the Kansas Speech-Language and Hearing Association
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licensed to practice in the state of Kansas
About Me
What Happy
Students &
Parents Say
“This program completely amazed me. I did not think my child would be able to learn from just one day a week. I was wrong! I love that its not only a teaching environment.-- its a learning environment for me and my son. I take what I learn here home to my son and continue teaching him.”
- Reading Explorers Mother, 2015