If your student is currently with an Individual Education Plan (IEP), it is time to contact his teacher and others in the IEP team to ask about Extended School Year (ESY) tutoring. Summertime tutoring may be necessary to help your child catch up, retain, and build upon present knowledge so that he is ready to return to school in the fall.

During the summer vacation, most students forget about two months’ worth of what they learned during the school year. They are also likely to slide back on the self-discipline, learning skills, and effective study habits that they worked so hard to gain and maintain during the school year. Students with learning differences are likely to experience even more summer learning loss, or regression, than other students. They most often require more time to catch up, to re-learn or recoup the knowledge and skills lost. That extra recoupment time puts them further behind in their class curriculum. They are also likely to slide back on the self-discipline, learning skills, and effective study habits that they worked so hard to gain and maintain during the school year.

Students receiving special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), such as with an IEP, may be eligible for ESY services at no cost to the parents. These services include summer tutoring, speech/language therapy, occupational therapy and more. ESY services are not limited to summer vacation time, but it is during that long vacation that the students fall behind the most.

The child’s need for ESY is determined by the IEP team which works with the student and parents at school.

The IEP team will consider the degree to which the student will experience critical skills regression during the vacation time as well as the amount of time that will be required for recoupment of those skills. The IEP team will also consider the student’s current progress toward meeting IEP goals and the effect that the summer break in education may have on achieving those goals.

Regression in the critical skill of reading may cause a significant setback in all learning recoupment as reading is at the base of studying all subjects. Reading well increases the student’s self-sufficiency.

The IDEA calls for the student to be educated in the least restrictive environment, which is ideally the general education classroom. The IEP team will consider whether a summer learning regression may result in the student’s having to spend excessive time receiving intensive special instruction away from his classmates.

Lear Educational Center provides academic coaching and scholastic tutoring designed to meet the individual needs of students. We accommodate and compensate for learning differences. We interface with schools to help students meet IEP and remediation goals, the challenges of today and of tomorrow.

At Lear Educational Center the student’s background knowledge is assessed with prior achievement recognized, placing an encouraging emphasis on what the student already has accomplished toward advancing through the appropriate curriculum. Self-confidence grows as knowledge gaps are filled in and foundational knowledge is reinforced. As new material is presented, the student’s level of comprehension is assessed and necessary further explanations and corrections are provided immediately to ensure that the student fully understands and builds a knowledge base on correct information.

At Lear Educational Center, our One-to-One Online Academic Coaching and Scholastic Tutoring sessions fully engage the student's attention as he actively participates, reinforcing impulse control to resist distractions. Maintaining the student’s interest encourages the student’s questions, enhances their recall skills, their organizational ability and expression of thoughts. The student develops confidence in his ability to advance as he learns new concepts and realizes that he has achieved preparation to learn even more.

Executive function skills, learning skills and strategies grow as the student puts them into practice during the sessions and afterward. Goal-directed habit patterns are reinforced to become personal standards. The students learn that their initiative is valuable and will be rewarded.

Maximizing the potential of each individual student is the mission of Lear Educational Center.

At Lear Educational Center we provide supportive One-to-One, systematized, intensive, individualized online academic coaching and scholastic tutoring on all levels, primary through college, for most subjects.

We interface with schools, working with the curriculum appropriate for each student. We specialize in teaching students with learning differences, helping them meet IEP and remediation goals, the challenges of today and of tomorrow.

At Lear Educational Center we teach students with learning differences such as ADD/ADHD, Auditory Processing Disorder, Visual Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Executive Function Disorder.

At Lear Educational Center we provide academic coaching and tutoring to gifted and college level students as well.

Our tutoring services are available on campus, online, or at our facility.

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