CPS innovative and highly recognized program offers to our students with mild learning differences special assistance to develop compensating strategies to become successful with grade level material for each subject taken in the Horizons setting. To that end, we provide the necessary adaptations and accommodations for each of our students. Our teachers are conscious of the learning style of their students and the needs they have through the psycho educational evaluation and professionals’ recommendations.
While we do not offer remediation or therapies in Horizons, children do learn compensatory strategies as they are taught course content. When teachers oversee filling out the agendas, they are teaching organizational skills that eventually become habit. Comments are made daily by all the teachers about the things a child must do to succeed. Over time, students become aware of their own learning style and how to use the knowledge in class and at home. They begin to better structure their materials and study time. Horizons teachers are very accessible and are the key to providing not only the encouragement, but also the reminders and hints the child needs so that independent work becomes a possibility.
Teachers are justifiably proud when a child is mainstreamed, but also are careful to assure that the move is a successful one and does not lead to frustration and/or failure. The receiving and sending teachers meet to discuss the child’s needs before mainstreaming occurs and both must agree that the child is ready. Although we hope that all children coming to Horizons will be mainstreamed one day, the reality is that that is not what is best for some of our students. There are a few who will continue to need support of Horizons for years, at least in the classes that are most affected by their learning differences.
For further information, please contact
Ms. Sonia
M. Colón our Horizons Director
at
(787) 765-4411. |
