Lower School Guidance Children who have experienced academic and social difficulties are often discouraged. Equally important, the underlying dysfunction responsible for the learning disability may have additional consequences that also interfere with development appropriate to age and intellectual potential. Problems such as restlessness, limited attention span, poor organizational ability, low frustration level, impulsiveness and poor social perception require constructive attention. Skilled teaching, the therapeutic milieu in the classroom and the sensitive intervention of teachers provide the major means for addressing these problems. An incentive system for behavioral change is also in effect.
Individual counseling is provided when needed.
Our students are helped to become self-advocates through such understanding. Therapy groups limited to no more than four students per group designed to teach impulse control strategies, resolution of conflicts and the reduction of aggressive tendencies. Solving Curriculum is a classroom-based weekly program. Its premise is that social growth and competence requires direct teaching of the skills needed to guide social behavior and to make appropriate social decisions.