In a new blog series, Boston Tutoring Services highlights Massachusetts Special Education Schools. This week, we interview Suzanne Tiberii from The Manville School. Boston Tutoring Services: What types of special needs/disabilities does your school support? Suzanne Tiberii: Manville is a 766-approved private therapeutic day school. We serve children with emotional, behavioral and learning challenges. About 1/3 of our students are on the high end of the autism spectrum (Asperger’s, NLD). BTS: What types of therapeutic services do…
Staying organized and using time effectively and efficiently is a daunting task that most people (both children and adults) struggle with in various aspects of their lives. We call these executive functioning skills, but there is so much more attached to the stigma of these words. Frustration, anxiety, depression, passive aggression, oppositional behavior, and active aggressive behaviors are just a sample of the myriad of challenges parents and professional educators face on a daily basis…
Can you tell me about your background and your company’s services? I’m Carol Gignoux, ADHD Coach and former educator. Through my company Live ADHD Free, I offer self-improvement programs to students, adults, couples, families and businesses, to get the best talents and innovations out of people with the ADHD brain type. My work started with ADHD students in the Boston school system back in 1972, and I’ve seen this brain type go through many labels…
http://www.becomingabettertutor.blogspot.com/2013/03/teaching-multiplication-through-skip.html Teaching Multiplication through Skip-Counting to a Student with Special Needs I have a student with a rare condition: Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (a complete or partial absence of the corpus callosum, the band connecting the two hemispheres in the brain). He struggles with mental math and memorizing facts, and benefits from a more visual and tactile approach. I don’t specifically use Touch Math with him, but I do incorporate those concepts. Multiplication through…
SAT or ACT test prep is even more vital for students with ADHD/ADD, or students on the Autism Spectrum, because the added anxiety will affect the student’s score and fail to show the true potential of the student. The more practice your child does, especially with a private tutor who can accommodate your child’s specific learning style or incorporate the modifications of an IEP, the better your student will perform. As the following article states,…
