learner assist

Learner Assist is in the business of Learning Support. It offers specialist intervention for Primary-aged and Middle Years students with learning disabilities and for students who are underachieving in the areas of literacy and numeracy at school. It also offers support to the parents and teachers of its students.

 

Support:

Support offered by the specialist tutor at Learner Assist may be in the form of: specialist tuition services, standardized assessment accompanied by an assessment report (at a cost)), access to general educational, support-related information, referrals to Allied Health specialists, if required, and the provision of regular, ongoing 'Response To Intervention' assessment, accompanied by reports that investigate student progress and provide recommendations. Learning support lessons take place at the tutor's home or via online learning.

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Learner Assist also offers consulting services. The consultant specialist tutor, when requested by parents, may have the opportunity to collaborate with a student's teacher in the creation of Individual Education Plans, especially for those students that qualify for educational adjustments. IEP documents are usually developed at school by the teacher/s and in collaboration with parents, support specialist teachers, Allied Health professionals and sometimes also with the student involved, depending on his / her age.

 

IEPs record learning goals for students, modifications to schoolwork activities to accommodate learning difficulties, altered time frames for work completion and any other adjustments and strategies that might assist the student to function more comfortably in the classroom and improve his/her foundation and learning skills. IEP documents are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound Action Plans and are consistently reviewed over time.  It is important that a student's confidence and motivation be maintained, especially as they enter the Upper Primary and Secondary School levels. An Individual Education Plan is one way of accomplishing this.

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Support is a four-step process at Learner Assist:

1. Establish a working relationship with student, parents and where necessary, with teachers.

2. Investigate the student's learning strengths and difficulties via previously completed educational assessments, Learner Assist diagnostic and standardised assessment and communication with the parents, teachers and any other specialists involved in assessing or assisting the student.

3. Brainstorm areas of focus, necessary interventions and teaching and learning strategies to be used. Learning goals are devised.

4. Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions periodically via Response to Intervention standardized and diagnostic assessment to inform future teaching and learning. 

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Purpose Statement:

Learner Assist endeavours to assist Primary-aged and Middle Years students in their specific area of learning difficulty via evidence-based teaching and also provide reliable specialist information to families with regard to the remediation and general support of students with learning difficulties. 

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Learner Assist provides structured, explicit, evidence-based teaching that is thoroughly researched and is proven to support students with learning difficulties.

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Belief Statement:

Learner Assist is built on the firm belief that all students should have equal access to learning and that it is a fact that learning is facilitated by effective reading, spelling and writing skills. To achieve the objective of equal access to learning all children therefore need to master foundation literacy skills to foster comprehension, thinking and advanced writing skills and to sustain their enthusiasm for learning over time.

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The motto at Learner Assist is: 

READ LEARN THINK DREAM.

This motto really pertains to all literacy skills and not only to reading, in that foundation skills open doors to further 'learning', facilitating a future in which a child has the tools to think and dream. 

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Developing conceptual understandings and efficient skills in math calculations is just as important for students with learning difficulties.  Learner Assist also aims to provide effective, evidence-based teaching that will assist students struggling in maths to master basic number skills and more advanced maths concepts.

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Juanita Lee

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