ACADEMICS- Literacy and Numeracy & Handwriting Skills
Literacy & Educational Therapy
We provide literacy, educational therapy and learning support services. Our educational therapists work with children in pre-primary up to those in secondary schools requiring educational remedial sessions, such as reading, mathematics, coping strategies, organizational skills, focus / attention issues, handwriting, visual-tracking and memory issues.
Sessions are structured to meet the needs of the child and are conducted either on
(a) One-to-one basis or
(b) Group basis, limited up to 3 students.
Our therapists tailor programmes to the needs of the student and are trained in a variety of approaches including:-
a) Orton-Gillingham Approach
The Orton-Gilingham approach is language-based, multi-sensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, cognitive and flexible. It is an intensive, sequential phonics-based system teaches the basics of word formation before whole meanings. The method accommodates and utilizes the three learning modalities, or pathways, through which people learn—visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
Literacy and Language Skills
Orton-Gillingham Approach
The Orton-Gilingham approach is used to remediate Phonics to children who require an intensive, sequential phonics-based system of learning the basics of word formation before whole meanings. The method accommodates and utilizes the four learning modalities, mainly—visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile.
The Literacy and Language component covers the Writing portion where it focuses on teaching reading and spelling skills using the Orton Gillingham approach, which involves direct, systematic and cumulative instruction, incorporating multi-sensory elements. It taps on the child's strengths and interests, moving in a spiral progression by building on previously learnt skills. The Comprehension portion takes on from writing where it goes further into learning comprehension skills like inference, contextual clues, prediction and other vital skills needed to approach a passage.
The Literacy and Language component also covers sthe Oracy component where it provides structure opportunities for speaking, listenng and vocabulary development.
It involves ranging from simple tasks to more challenging ones requiring higher level thinking and speaking skills.
Numeracy
The Numeracy programe attempts to deal with areas like basic numeracy, sequencing, visual - spatial awareness and information processing. It uses multisensory methods to help learners with the basics nuneracy, understand mathematical
symbols, briding and seeing links between topics and to come out with strategies for learning and coping. The programe targets at K2 - P3 children, the U graders (under the current MOE system grading scale) and those who are studying in the Foundation Level (under the Singapore MOE system)
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