Boston Tutoring Services speaks with Development Manager Caroline Cooke from Realizing Children’s Strengths (RCS) Learning Center. Boston Tutoring Services: What types of special needs/disabilities does your school support? Caroline Cooke: Realizing Children’s Strengths (RCS) Learning Center provides educational & behavioral services to children ages 3-22 with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities. This includes Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, behavioral disorders, and more. BTS:What types of therapeutic services do you offer? CC: RCS provides exceptional ABA services to…
Maple Leaf Clinic Wallingford, Vermont hosts Camp Maple Leaf, a special needs camp that supports campers with Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD). Maple Leaf stresses that their camp environment is “more like a family vacation.” Day activities focus on the campers, where social skills are woven into each activity, from kayaking, to short hikes, campfire time, and crafts. To Maple Leaf, these are all opportunities for social growth and improvement. Each day, the camp hosts a special guest, which could be a magician, or a…
Camp Sequoia is a dynamic summer camp experience that serves young men ages 7-17 in Pennsylvania. Sequoia focuses on improved social skills for campers with ADHD and other similar diagnoses who do not need the level of support offered at special needs overnight camps yet need a different experience than a traditional overnight camp can offer. Campers can have fun and grow in a safe and supportive environment with Sequoia’s 2:5 staffing ratio. Their camp…
“The Aspire Adventure Camp is more than just a place to send your child to in the summer. If you are looking for a fun, supportive and productive experience combined with social learning you have come to the right place.” – quoted from Aspire’s website Aspire is a Massachusetts General Hospital for Children autism program that has served individuals with high cognitive autism spectrum disorder or a related profile in the Boston metropolitan area for over 25…
Camp Howe is an inclusive recreational camp located in Goshen, Massachusetts that supports a wide variety of special needs to its youth. Through their Echo Program, Camp Howe is a legacy partner of the National Inclusion Project and has been awarded the prestigious Eleanor P. Eels Award for Program Excellence from The American Camp Association twice. In February, Camp Howe was featured in the Boston Globe Magazine in a story on local camps that support…
The Integrated Learning Academy in Newton, Massachusetts (ILAN) is a center-based school for students with Autism and other Developmental Disorders, serving students from the ages of three to twenty-two. “Given that Autism is a complex disorder with neurological underpinnings, the design of a comprehensive educational program must be in the hands of an interdisciplinary team comprised of Educators, Behavior Analysts, Neuropsychologists, Speech Pathologists and Medical Doctors,” Ellyn Ellis, a representative from ILAN, said in an…
The common application form is often an admission committee’s first contact with a prospective student. Below are some of the top responses from counselors and admissions staff who shared the most common mistakes on college applications. Misspellings and grammatical errors—This is a big pet peeve of admissions people. Misspellings on something as important as the application shows that either you don’t care or you aren’t good at spelling. Some students even misspell their intended major.…
The nature of email is informal compared to standard business mail but it is important not to be too informal. The following are a few thoughts and suggestions regarding corresponding with colleges via email: DO Remember that your email messages may be added to your admissions file. Choose an appropriate email address. You may want to rethink addresses like partygirl@hotmail.com or hatetostudy@yahoo.com. Give your full name, address, phone number, and high school in each message.…
When deciding where to go to college, and when you apply determines what category you’ll be placed in. Regular Decision Applications are accepted by the college until the stated application deadline. All applications are reviewed and decisions are mailed to everyone at the same time, usually in late March or early April, but no later than April 15. Early Decision Some students are so sure of their first choice college early in their senior year…
