Remedial Academic Instruction

Compensatory Skill Building

This method involves teaching students to use their strengths to compensate for their weaknesses, and a scaffolding approach is employed. First, techniques and strategies are demonstrated. Then, multi-sensory methods help the students internalize the process. Finally, students demonstrate the skills to manage their work independently.

Study skills in All Academic Subjects

Study skills are often expected in education but rarely taught. As a result, many students need to learn effective ways to encode the academic content, complete assignments in the allocated amount of time, and prepare for tests and exams.

If students come to sessions without the academic content needed to succeed, sessions may focus on the reteaching of the material in a different and multisensory way.

Reading

Students are offered a variety of approaches that match their best ways of learning and may integrate:

Intensive phonemic awareness instruction
Visualization and inner voice training
Comprehension strategies
Higher-order thinking skills
Multisensory games that kindle joy in the learning process
Orton-Gillingham methods of instruction
Structured Word Inquiry methods
Whole word approaches to reading
Assitive technology options

Other Language Based skills

A unique program is created for each student. Possible topics of focus may include:

Spelling instruction
Writing skills including grammar, notetaking, essay writing, research skills, literary devices, creative writing, college essays, editing etc.
Handwriting (print and cursive)
Keyboarding skills so students can become touch typers
Understanding inferences
Following directions (written and oral)
Multiple choice strategies
Reading verbal and nonverbal cues.

Mathematics