Door of Hope Learning Center

Wonderful, caring people working with kids (and adults) at this place. Name says it all… Door of Hope for those who need help in school or even adults who need it. We have been looking all over Bakersfield for someone who can help our son who has a learning disability. We went for one full year in third grade of wasted time in school and struggling to get good grades. Which by the way had already started a year ago in second grade when he got a formal diagnosis of his learning disability. The school was VERY slow in getting us all the help he needed. We ended up using our own insurance (which we luckily have and a great one at that) to get the ball rolling… getting diagnosis, tests, evaluations and recommendations. And even after all that, an IEP took forever to get on their calendars so implementation of any services took forever! So on our own we searched but programs & tutors we found in California that we feel can help him are all out of town, no satellite locations in Bakersfield and VERY expensive.
One day, we bumped into a friend we have not seen in a while and shortly after we started talking trying to catch up on how things are going on, we ended up talking about the kids and how they are doing. Coincidentally, both our boys are struggling in school with similar learning disabilities. And she had mention she found Karen and Jay Peavler to help her son and she had him started with tutoring just a few days ago… and that she is amazed at how much improvement she’s seen with him. Like us, she had done some research for programs and tutors all over. So she explained to me what program Door of Hope offers that could be helpful for our son too! I got their information and I immediately called to set-​up an appointment for evaluation to see what they have to offer for our son. We wanted to get him in and have them work with him through the summer. Our goal was to get him where he needs to be when school starts the following fall and see what kind of progress he’s made or if there had been any improvement with his grades.
School started and he was ready… at parent conference, it was good news… at the end of the quarter, we had a Honor Roll on our hands! And that went on until the 4^th quarter! We had a Honor Roll student all year!!! He went from C’s & D’s to Honor Roll!!! It was amazing and I cannot explain how I felt to see how much he’s achieved with the help of Karen and Door of Hope. I am always in tears when I talk about it. They use the Lindamood-​Bell Learning Processes in teaching kids with learning disability achieve their potential. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for help for your struggling student.

Great place! This place really helped my son! He has improved so much since he started going here. He went from an «D» barely passing student to an Honor Roll Principals list student. If your student has problems grasping learning tasks this is the place to take him, They work hard with the their students and really make significant steps. Jay, Karen and Jamie are absolutely wonderful.