California Scottish Rite Foundation – Oakland, SF, San Jose Childhood Language Centers

The RiteCare Childhood Language Centers are non-profit language and learning center that provides both neuroplasticity-based reading interventions and traditional speech and language therapy.

Our educational and speech-language therapists have provided free services to preschool through high school aged children and adolescents

Our Center is a philanthropy of the Scottish Rite, a concordant body of the Freemasons, one of 170 Rite Care Centers across the U.S.

Interactive Metronome
Oakland RiteCare® Childhood Language Center offers an intervention that has been shown to improve speech/communication, coordination and learning in children suffering from a number of conditions including auditory processing disorders, sensory integration disorder, and communication disorders. Interactive Metronome © (IM) is a computer-based technology that encourages users to match the computer’s rhythm through motion, thereby improving their internal sense of timing. An increasing amount of scientific evidence demonstrates that the brain’s internal clock is integral to the development and maintenance of many cognitive, behavioral, social, and motor skills.

Both our therapist and clients find Interactive Metronome to be challenging yet fun therapy that keeps their attention, and produces significant results.​​​

Fast ForWord
Oakland RiteCare Childhood Language Center provides Fast ForWord programs to improve LISTENING OR READING SKILLS:

Does your child…

Misunderstand what you say?

Request that information be repeated?

Give slow or delayed responses?

Use only a few descriptive words when speaking?

Seem reluctant to engage in conversations?

Have difficulty reconstructing a story in its appropriate order?

Struggle with decoding or reading comprehension?

Brain Fitness and Optimal Learning Equation
Neuroscience research has proven that brain exercises focused on Memory, Attention, Processing Rate and Sequencing coupled with research-based instruction accelerates learning.

The Listening Program
This music-based auditory stimulation program combines beautiful classical music and innovative acoustically modified sound progressing techniques to remediate sound hypersensitivity, listening skills, sensory regulation, learning, speech and language skills, and vestibular function. This program is especially appropriate for children who are not yet ready for the more structured and intensive Interactive Metronome and Fast ForWord programs

​All of the above is provided at NO COST to the children we serve or their families.

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Established in 1970, the RiteCare Childhood Language Center of San Francisco has made a lasting difference in the lives of children in San Francisco and the surrounding communities. The RiteCare Childhood Language Center provides life-changing speech, language, and literacy treatment of childhood language disorders free of charge.  Services are provided to children ranging from 18 months to 18 years of age.

The RiteCare Childhood Language Center of San Francisco, a program of the California Scottish Rite Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, totally reliant on philanthropy from individuals, foundations and corporate partners.  We do not receive any state or federal funding.

2850 19th Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

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