Meet Ms. Susan Ardila, M.Ed.

For 13+ years, I’ve helped students who thought they were “just bad at math” discover what they’re actually capable of.
Many of my students come to me overwhelmed by dyscalculia, ADHD, autism, anxiety, or years of discouraging experiences in the classroom. They’re bright — incredibly bright — but the traditional system wasn’t built with them in mind.

I change that.

I’m Ms. Susan Ardila, a Master’s-level Educational Therapist, Dyscalculia Specialist, and multisensory math educator. I combine research-backed math intervention with executive function coaching and educational therapy to help students build real understanding, confidence, and independence.

If your child has ever felt defeated, misunderstood, or left behind in math… you’re in the right place.

My Signature Approach

Holistic Multisensory Math™

Where educational therapy meets math instruction meets executive function support.

Most tutors reteach the same steps your child already struggled with.
I do the opposite: I rebuild the foundation.

My approach blends:

✔ Multisensory math instruction
Concrete-to-representational-to-abstract models, manipulatives, visual scaffolds, and explicit conceptual teaching.

✔ Dyscalculia-specific intervention
Based on diagnostics, targeted skill gaps, subitizing, number sense, magnitude comparison, spatial reasoning, and working memory supports.

✔ Executive function coaching
Activation strategies, organization, task initiation, planning, problem-solving, and study skills — integrated directly into math so it sticks.

✔ Autism-friendly math instruction
Predictable routines, clear structure, visual anchors, and processing-friendly pacing.

✔ Confidence-building through cognitive restructuring
Students stop thinking “I can’t do math” and start thinking “I know exactly how to tackle this.”

This isn’t tutoring.
It’s a complete recalibration of how your child experiences math.

Why My Students Succeed (When Nothing Else Worked)

Most of my students have already tried:

• traditional tutors

• homework help

• after-school programs

• school intervention

• doing more worksheets

• “memorizing steps”

• Khan Academy or ALEKS

• or just praying math will “click eventually”

None of those work for dyscalculia or neurodiverse learners.

Here’s why students succeed with me:

I don’t teach math first.
I teach how the brain understands math.

When you combine the right models with the right language, the right executive function supports, and the right emotional scaffolding — everything changes. Kids who once refused to pick up a pencil are suddenly explaining their thinking, solving problems, and surprising themselves.

Parents tell me daily:

“For the first time, I feel like someone really understands my child.”

Who I Work Best With

Your child might thrive with me if they:

• have dyscalculia or suspected dyscalculia

• are autistic and need predictable, visually structured instruction

• have ADHD and struggle with activation, working memory, or follow-through

• are twice-exceptional (2e) and misunderstood

• feel defeated, anxious, or embarrassed about math

• understand concepts one day and lose them the next

• have been told they’re “lazy,” “not trying,” or “not working to their potential”

• freeze during tests even when they know the content

• are gifted but struggle with basic fact fluency or number sense

• need someone who gets neurodiverse learners — deeply

If this sounds like your child, you will see changes here that you haven’t seen anywhere else.​