PINE STATE
LEARNING

Services

We provide direct instruction to learners, diagnostic support to families delivering instruction at home, and consultation and direct service to schools. All services begin with a file analysis.

For Learners For Families For Schools

Find your starting point

Most families arrive with one of four situations. Each maps to a clear first step.

Answers first
A skills assessment identifies which specific skills are missing and produces a skill profile and an individualized learning plan.
Skills assessment →
Faster progress
Daily one-on-one sessions concentrated over 6 to 12 weeks, measured by the same standardized assessment before and after.
Intensive Instruction →
Steady weekly support
Individualized remediation in reading, writing, or math, one to three sessions per week through the school year.
Part Time Tutoring →
Support at home or with school
Guidance on IEPs, evaluations, and school decisions, or coaching and materials to teach your own learner at home.
Parent Consultation →
Service
Best when
Schedule
First step
You need to understand why school is hard before choosing instruction
2 to 3 testing sessions
Free 15-minute consult
The gap is wide and progress needs to come quickly
Daily sessions, 6 to 12 weeks
Skills assessment
Steady remediation fits your learner and your schedule
1 to 3 sessions per week
Skills assessment
Making up ground over the summer, outside the school-year schedule
Daily sessions, 6 to 8 weeks
Free 15-minute consult
You want guidance on IEPs, evaluations, or decisions with your school
Single sessions, as needed
Free 15-minute consult
You are delivering instruction at home yourself
Coaching plus a home learning kit
Free 15-minute consult

Supporting Learners

A learning profile is a plain-language picture of which skills are solid and which are missing. No diagnosis is required to start.

Book the free consult
1
Free consult
15 minutes, phone or online. We hear what has been happening with your learner and tell you honestly what we think the next step is.
2
Developing a learning plan
Skills assessment and file review: we assess every student's skills and review previous evaluations. The result is an individualized learning plan: what to teach, in what order, with instructional recommendations. If you need a complete diagnostic picture first, an independent academic evaluation is a separate service.
Not sure yet? Start with a free screener.
Three short, 15-question screeners help you see whether dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia patterns fit what you are seeing at home. A starting point, not a diagnosis.
3
Tutoring
Part Time Tutoring
Weekly one-on-one sessions built around the individualized learning plan. Instruction is structured, cumulative, and monitored continuously.
About tutoring
Daily Intensive Instruction
Daily one-on-one intervention: Summer LEAP over 6 to 8 weeks, or during the school year. An average round is 90 to 120 hours of direct instruction.
+2.5
grade levels, decoding
+2
grade levels, word recognition
+1.9
grade levels, oral reading fluency
2025 LEAP summer students (22 learners), 6 to 8 weeks. Individual results vary.

Supporting Families

Teach your own learner at home, or get guidance on IEPs, working with your school, and other decisions along the way.

"When we started working with Lisa we were so thankful to finally find someone who understood our son's needs and how to address them! We saw significant improvement in his reading, and his confidence."
Sarah M., parent of a high schooler
Tutor Your Own Child
Home learning kits matched to your child's skill profile, so the teaching you do at home targets the right skills.
About tutoring your own child
Parent Consultation
Guidance for the decisions around your learner: IEP meetings, working with your school, materials and sequence for teaching at home, and next steps as they advance.
About parent consultation

Supporting Schools

PSL works with districts around Maine on both sides of the intervention: designing it, or delivering it.

"I have seen tremendous growth in students who have worked under Lisa Murphy's direction. Students have improved multiple grade levels and their confidence has skyrocketed."
Maine Special Education Director
School Consultation
Consultation on intervention design, progress monitoring, and structured literacy practice for your own staff.
For districts
SDI Services for Public Schools
PSL delivers specially designed instruction to your students directly, in person or online, as part of an IEP or district intervention plan.
For districts

Start with a free 15-minute consultation.

A quick conversation helps us hear your concerns and guide you to the next steps. We will get you set up to start tutoring, an independent academic evaluation, or a home learning kit, or send you to the professionals who can help if we cannot.

Book a free 15-minute consult
207.426.4267 lisa.murphy@pinestatelearning.com
Our Commitment to Equity

We are committed to working against the way that racial and socioeconomic privilege manifests itself in the identification and remediation of learning disabilities.

We do what we can by offering need based scholarships, doing pro-bono consultation for families with economic needs, providing services in some of Maine's lowest resource schools, and working with educational advocates on the toughest cases to help ALL students get what they need.