The college's Student Evaluation Clinic will now provide discounted or free learning evaluations to low income families.
EWING -- The College of New Jersey's Student Evaluation Clinic will provide discounted or free educational testing services to low income families after receiving a gift from the Herst family.
The clinic, part of the TCNJ Dyslexia Initiative, offers assessment services to students, families and school districts.
A dyslexia evaluation takes two and a half hours and costs approximately $700 at TCNJ, Director of the Student Evaluation Clinic Heather Tellier said. And she said it can cost nearly $2,000 elsewhere.
"Since we launched the Clinic in August 2015 with support from The College of New Jersey, we've be able to help dozens of children gain the information they need regarding their children's learning needs," Dr. Kathleen Rotter, Director of the Dyslexia Initiative said. "With these new funds, we are looking forward to helping even more families."
Elissa Herst was not diagnosed with dyslexia until she was a young adult, so the Herst family is committed to providing resources to identify and remediate the learning disability.
"My wife and I are pleased to see the value that families have received from working with the TCNJ Student Evaluation Clinic," Adolf Herst said. "We decided to extend additional financial support to the Clinic so that low income families can have more access to these services."
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