At its last public meeting, the Village of Roslyn Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a special use permit for property on 18-20 Roosevelt Ave. in Roslyn to be used as the Lindamood-Bell Learning Center.

The learning center will be located at a former woodworking shop on Roosevelt Avenue. Its directors, which includes Carol Margilitis, a current Roslyn School District board member, hope to convert the shop into a private tutoring clinic. The estimated space of the center is 2,500 sq. ft. A & M Custom Construction will be doing the renovation work.

The establishment will serve mostly children and some adults, all of whom have learning disabilities. In addition to the tutors and administrators, the directors told the BOT that there would only be a maximum of 19 people at the center at any given time.

Most of the students, they added, will come to Roosevelt Avenue in a drop-off situation, so the learning center will not add much to the local traffic situation. The average student will attend the center for two to four hours a day. The hours for the learning center, the directors said, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. On Saturday, the clinic hopes to be open from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Since they are coming in from day jobs, the adults who attend will come to Roslyn during the late-afternoon hours.

The learning center's directors are aiming for a mid-September opening date, one that would coincide with the opening of the regular school year. The clinic in Roslyn is one of over 20 such Lindamood-Bell learning centers in the nation. The clinic has its corporate headquarters in San Luis Obispo, CA, with clinics in San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, Stamford, CT, Miami, FL, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Indianapolis, IN, Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, among other cities. The Roslyn clinic was formerly located at Round Hill Road on the Roslyn High School campus. The clinic has, over the years, pioneered programs to develop the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading, spelling, math, visual-motor skills, language comprehension, and critical thinking. The clinics are named for the memory of two educators, Charles Lindamood and Rhett Bell. Village of Roslyn BOT members seemed pleased with the new use for the building on Roosevelt Avenue.