Special Education
The Special Education department at Stars offer the highest quality of individualized educational intervention for children with:
- Dyslexia
- Hyperlexia (above-average decoding skills and below-average reading comprehension)
- Dyscalculia
- Mild autism spectrum disorder
- ADD / ADHD
- Any other learning difficulties/ challenges including children who have any per-requisite skills or unfulfilled gaps in reading, reading comprehension, spelling, writing and math skills.
Using strategies that draw on a child's strengths and learning style, we tailor research based corrective educational programs for each child. Additionally, a carefully implemented Individualized Therapy Plan (ITP) is created and followed.
We provide Academic programs for:
- Phonological awareness
- Reading (word decoding and word recognition)
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Expressive Writing
- Mathematical Computational Skills
The special educators at Stars are trained in using the following educational approaches/programs:
- Talkies: visualizing and verbalizing for oral language comprehension and expression
- Visualizing and Verbalizing: for reading comprehension and thinking
- LiPS: for phoneme sequencing, reading, spelling
- Seeing Stars: for phonological and orthographic processing in reading and spelling
- On Cloud Nine Math: for math computation skills
- Davis Approach for Dyslexia
These programs are research instructional programs that help develop sensory-cognitive functions: the foundation of learning. They help individuals of all ages improve their language processing skills, critical thinking and become more independent.
All of our individualize educational sessions include:
- Customized instruction
- Adapted methods and materials
- Multisensory approach
- Behavioral modification techniques
"Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing." - Madeline Hunter