Our Student Support Services
NILD
The National Institute of Learning Development (NILD) Discovery Program of Educational Therapy
This program utilizes specifically trained and qualified therapists who provide learning assessments and individualized, intensive, mediated learning experiences to the students. Direct intervention and the resulting competence and confidence allow the students to gain the skills needed to become independent learners for a lifetime. NILD Educational Therapy is a direct, language-based intervention for students with learning challenges. NILD educational therapy is a true therapy, in that it aims the intervention just above the student’s current level of functioning and raises expectations for performance, which creates the framework to foster growth.
FIE
Feuerstein’s Instruments of Enrichment (FIE)
Feuerstein’s Instruments of Enrichment (FIE) is a cognitive (thinking) intervention to enable students to think more efficiently, clearly and effectively to become more academically successful. FIE enables therapists to affect change in the structure of children’s minds so that young brains work at maximum efficiency and realize academic success and enhance executive functioning skills.
Search and Teach
Search and Teach is an intervention program developed to meet the education needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure. This program designed for students ages 5 and 6 addresses visual, visual motor, auditory, and intermodal clusters to develop skills necessary for efficient reading, writing, and spelling.
Rx for Reading
This NILD Program for international students and/or students needing intensive focus on the English language and the components for effective reading skills. This program develops the five components outlined by the National Reading Panel Report of 2000: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. These skills are critical for overall academic achievement. Rx for Reading models how to weave these components, which we call “strands of language” into a language braid that is comprehensive, constructive, and creative.
Art Therapy
Art therapy incorporates the production of visual art, such as painting or sculpture, in order to understand and express one's feelings. It is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress.
Mental Health Counceling
Mental health therapy provided in our school setting can be one of the most effective tools in helping students to learn to identify and express their emotions. Therapy is provided in a calm and private environment, combining clinical training and innovative strategies to make therapy engaging and fun. A students’ mental health is at the core of everything they do. Participation in mental health therapy can help a student to learn coping skills to manage stress, anxiety, navigate peer and family relationships, and develop a healthy self esteem.