Intensive One-to-One Academic Therapy
For Students in Elementary to High School
Spring 2025
March 3 - April 18, 2025
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Intensive One-to-One Academic Therapy
For Students in Elementary to High School
Students will work one to one with an Academic Language Therapist three times per week for 50 minutes. Clinical supervisors will observe student progress on a weekly basis to monitor student response. Parent/Guardians will receive progress reports at the end of the 7-week program.
ASDEC SPECIALISTS TEACH SOUNDS IN SYLLABLES, THE ONLY ORTON-GILLINGHAM BASED program that meets all critieria for an Intensive Tier 3 intervention program in Maryland. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and handwriting. Physical movement is added to the visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day.
Who should attend?
Students who currently are struggling in school and require special accommodations as specified in an IEP or some other educational plan.
WHAT STUDENTS LEARN
Students work one-to-one with an academic therapist in the following:
Multisensory Language Training
ASDEC’s Sounds In Syllables teaches phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and comprehension procedures that focus attention, improve memory, and reduce anxiety.
Verbal Expression
Through interactive activities and games, students improve language skills through sentence expansion, categorizing and sequencing activities, and deductive reasoning methods.
ASDEC INSTRUCTORS
ASDEC Clinical Directors lead the summer program team. Summer Program Director Traude Smith, CALT has a masters degree in education and has been teaching students with learning differences since 1985. Serving alongside as a clinical supervisor is Mona Iyer, CALT a Certified Montessori Teacher with over 23 years experience as a Montessori teacher and over 15 years as a Certified Academic Therapist.
Donna Brooks, CALT, Donna L. Brooks is an ALTA-certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) and IDA certified Dyslexia Therapist and ASDEC Supervisor. She is the founder of Moving Muscles. This program is specifically used for the ASDEC Summer Program and allows children the ability to become better coordinated, working on total body motion while addressing mid-line, hypotonia, dyspraxia challenges. Most importantly, the children have fun while doing this. Donna is also the founder of Blessings Through Dyslexia, an intervention services provider. She is also certified as a Myers-Briggs Facilitator, an Equipping Minds (EM) Mediator, a Feuerstein Method Mediator, and The Listening Program (TLP) Provider, Visual and Auditory Assessor through The Listening Program, and an Intern for the Learning Ears Program. Donna is currently enrolled in a Masters of Counseling Program at Huntington University, Huntington, Indiana. She is retired from the United States Air Force. Donna and her daughter, Grace, understand the challenges and blessings that come with having dyslexia.
In addition to our Program Directors, Academic Therapists will work one-on-one and in small groups with students. Therapists meet each day with the Program Director to review the child’s progress and plan the next session.
PROGRAM LOCATIONS
Varies, including Rockville, Olney, Gaithersburg and NW DC
PROGRAM COSTS
$1,000 plus $100 non-refundable application fee
HOW TO REGISTER
Step 1:
Complete online pre-registration form below along with payment of non-refundable deposit.
Step 2:
Send student's educational testing via email.
Step 3:
After staff review testing, student will be invited to meet with summer program director for intake and placement.