Academic support

Our full-time learning specialist provides a variety of support services designed to maximize each child's personal and academic potential. Our learning specialist works with individual students, small groups and large groups in both the classroom and resource setting.

Focusing on the strengths of the learner, the Learning Specialist develops individualized learning plans that identify strategies that will promote academic success. This plan is developed in collaboration with the child's teacher/s and parent/s.

     The Learning Specialist provides a range of services including:

                        : Consultation

                        : Advocacy

                        : Alternative testing arrangements

                        : Academic support

                        : Assistance in the classroom

                        : Assistance with test-taking strategies, 
                          organization skills and study habits

                        : Identification of learner's strengths and needs

                        : Monitoring student progress

                        : Resource to faculty and families
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Cynthia DeAngelis, Learning Specialist