Montessori Achievement Center for Learning Needs

In a Selective-Integration Environment™, students are in a classroom free of distractions, receiving an individualized education, which helps them accelerate their learning process and academic success. In addition, the students participate in the school community in “Peer Learning and Teaching”, where students learn from and with each other in ways that are mutually beneficial and involve sharing knowledge, ideas, and experiences between participants. The Selective-Integration Environment™ approach provides the emotional support that learners offer each other, as much as learning itself. Students obtain the benefits of an inclusive environment, acquiring cognitive social skills, building positive self-esteem, and reinforcing confidence.
Research-based neurocognitive interventions to promote academic success form part of the daily curriculum;

PACE
Orton-Gillingham™, BrainSkills™,Cogmed Working Memory Training, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, LIPS®, Talkies®, Interactive Metronome™, The Listening Program®, Fast ForWord®
Ticket To Read®, BrainBuilder®, & Rhythm and Dance Program™.

Evaluations
The purpose of the evaluation is to identify the student’s strengths and weaknesses. This evaluation is utilized to customize an individual educational program addressing the learning needs of each student.
The evaluation may look at cognitive, behavioral, physical, and developmental factors, as well as other areas. A full evaluation must be done before the initial provision of any special education and at the end of the year. The year-end evaluation allows us to establish the progress that each student has made during the year and to modify the student’s educational program for the following year.

Educators
Our Special Ed teachers are certified in the Montessori Method. Teachers work closely with parents to inform them of their child’s progress and suggest techniques to promote learning at home. Our focus is to target the student’s entire learning system, not just the surface skills.
Technology is becoming increasingly important in special education; our teachers use computers with synthesized speech, interactive educational software programs, and audiotapes to assist the students maximize their learning experience.


We serve children with:
• Poor Grades
• Learning Disabilities
• Dyslexia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyscalculia
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder (C/APD)
• AD/HD
• PDD-NOS / Autism Spectrum / Asperger’s
• Non-Verbal Learning Disability
• Memory Impairments
• Sensory Integration Dysfunction
• Speech and Language Delays
• Other developmental delays and disorders that slow or otherwise hinder normal educational development.

Summer Camp
We offer innovative, fun-filled achievement Educational Programs that will help your child improve his or her ability to listen, focus, read, write, remember, and interact with peers.

Montessori Life Skills Sensorial lessons help children with daily life skills, play skills, motor skills, hand-eye-coordination, stimulate and train hearing, touch, smell, and to promotes cognitive development.
Purposeful Play Program Teaches preschool children ages 3 to 5 to play in novel ways that give them the needed social skills.
Social Thinking Groups Cutting-edge curriculum that helps those ages 6 to 12 with social cognitive difficulties.
Fast ForWord® Game-like computer exercises designed to help develop and strengthen memory and sequencing skills, attention, auditory processing speed, and the language skills.
Samonas Sound Therapy Auditory intervention program that uses music, voice, and nature sounds to re-map and restore the brain’s ability to process sound. Improves attention, communication, and memory skills.
Visualizing and Verbalizing® Improves reading comprehension, oral expression, oral comprehension.
Interactive Metronome Challenges the student to synchronize hand and foot exercises through a precise tone heard through headphones.
Other programs available: Cogmed Working Memory Training, Dance therapy, Taichi, and Qigong.

Tutoring
Specific programs impart new approaches to learning, designed to last a lifetime, that include skills such as:
Organizational Skills
Study Skills
Homework Management
Note-taking

Scholarships available:
• McKay 1-800-447-1636
www.floridaschoolchoice.org
• Florida Pride 1-866-794-9095
www.stepupforstudents.org
• Child Development 305-514-6200 Services
www.spe.schoolreadiness.org/pe
• Private Funding Programs