Teaching Techniques:

Orton-Gillingham - trains students in phonics with the use of multi-sensory techniques and learning aids.

Wilson Method - is the teaching of language skills through assessing and remediating students ability to analyze the structure of words and then apply that structure to reading, spelling and writing.

Colorful Learning Aids - assists the child in his/her ability to focus on the task at hand, reduce distractibility and create interest.

Modeling - may be used when teaching content area subject matter as well as study and/or focusing skills.

Individualized Learning Aides - are chosen, and in some cases, created by the Learning Specialists. These manipulatives and learning aids are tailored to the needs, personality and learning style of the individual student.

Reader's Theater - is a reading activity in which children are guided to interpret the thoughts and feelings of characters in a story. Students use their voices, facial expressions and hand gestures while reading scripts. They may also adapt their favorite stories to Reader's Theater scripts.

Successive Approximation - is a method by which students are taught a skill by acquiring a sequence of sub-skills, which lead to mastery of the target skill.

Memorization Strategies - includes mnemonics, association, learning to organize and categorize information and learning to break down material into smaller "chunks" to be memorized.

Choral Reading - is sometimes known as "reading in unison".  It gives practice in the pace and rhythm of language and oral reading skills.

Auditory Discrimination Training - teaches the student to hear the difference between the various speech sounds. Students are taught to discriminate between sounds set against various everyday background noises. Auditory discrimination is an important skill for both reading and spelling.

Kinesthetic Techniques - involves the use of large motor muscles. This translates in to learning by doing, by activity and by being actively involved in the learning process.

Visual Schema - are graphic representations of various ways to visually organize information and ideas, such as outlines, pictures or imaginative visual "reminders".  Visual Schema can also be taught as a mental pattern by which the child learns to independently organize and retrieve new information.