QWERTY Education Services

QWERTY Education Services offers one-on-one academic tutoring in subjects such as math, algebra, calculus, chemistry, geometry, reading, writing, and statistics, along with multi-sensory math tutoring and study skills support. The program also provides academic skills coaching, ADHD tutoring, Executive Functions Tutoring and Coaching, and learning consulting, including Learning Profile Consulting and educational program design. Families can access learning differences and ADHD testing, including ADHD screening tests, ADHD evaluations, ADHD assessments, an Attention Disorder Test, ADD/ADHD diagnosis, and comprehensive assessments for diagnosing learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD, and ASD, as well as basic academic skills benchmarking and evaluation of students’ aptitude and achievement.

• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: The Spotlight Tutoring program includes six structured sessions.

The Spotlight Tutoring program includes six structured sessions and an informal assessment to help families better understand how a child learns and to provide a trial experience to see whether ongoing academic support would be useful. Staff members regularly communicate with parents and, in many cases, speak with and work with teachers, counselors, and other professionals, and students typically work directly with one or two staff members while drawing on the expertise of several staff. The program offers a no-cost phone consultation and carefully matches each student with a tutor, learning specialist, or other specialist based on student learning style, specialist teaching style, and personality, and also offers individualized ADHD tutoring in Palo Alto for K–12 students and specialized screenings for learning differences and ADHD for students of all ages, including college students and adults.

Staff at QWERTY Education Services includes professional tutors and specialists from the fields of learning disabilities, educational psychology, and educational therapy, and educational psychologists and learning specialists provide formal learning differences and ADHD testing. The leadership team includes Michael Perez, M.S., Center Director and Owner; Maureen Reich Svenson, M.A., Director of Education; Sarah Hanrahan, M.S., L.E.P., Director of Learning Differences and ADHD Testing; Bailey Ubellacker, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum and Training; Carol Beaumont, Ph.D., Learning Specialist; Tina Dress, M.A., Learning Specialist; Uju Nwangwu, B.A., Learning Specialist; Lori Patton, M.Ed, Tutor and Education Consultant; Shyam Srinivasan, B.A., Tutor and Education Consultant; and Mark Carey, M.A., Learning Specialist and founder of the original independent tutoring and education consulting firm. Michael P. Perez, M.S., joined QWERTY in 1998 providing tutoring in high school science and mathematics, writing, study skills, and organization, and assumed leadership of QWERTY in 2009.

QWERTY began informally in 1976 as an independent tutoring and education consulting firm, opened QWERTY Writing Center in 1986, and became QWERTY Education Services in 2001, adopting the name QWERTY to reflect the role of emerging computer technology in its work. The organization states it has been a premier provider of professional education services for Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Atherton, and surrounding San Francisco Peninsula communities since 1976 and works, when appropriate, with teachers, schools, and other education and student health professionals in Silicon Valley in the area of educational program design. QWERTY Education Services regularly coaches students living in Atherton, Cupertino, Emerald Hills, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Mateo, San Carlos, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Stanford, and Woodside.

Last updated June 17, 2026.