SEPS offers intensive private tutoring by appointment. Interactive, highly individualized tutoring sessions can be designed to fit any need. Our tutors have extensive experience in assisting individuals with academic skills (such as reading, written language, and math), processing skills (how to write a term paper or take an achievement test), homework support, remedial or advanced work, Scouting merit badges, and more. Students are encouraged to ask questions. Structured, dynamic sessions probe and expand each student’s understanding. Tutors provide support, instruction, and clarification. We offer flexible, tutoring schedules ranging from one- to three-hour sessions. Programs can be arranged to meet your specific needs.

SEPS is an authorized provider for Scientific Learning Corporation's family of Fast ForWord Programs. Scientific Learning offers CD-ROM and internet programs developed by leaders in brain research. Scientific Learning’s Fast ForWord family of intensive computer-based programs for language and reading “train the brain” to learn faster. These training programs use patented technologies to adapt to each student’s skill level, allowing students of all ages to make gains in language and reading in just weeks, rather than years. Educators can track the progress of each student through the Scientific Learning’s patented internet tool. Your student could improve 1-3 years in language and reading skills in 8-12 weeks. SEPS offers:

• Fast ForWord Language: Uses patented technology to clarify sounds and rapidly develop the oral language skills that provide the foundation for reading - phonological awareness, listening comprehension, sustained focus and attention, and language structures.
• Fast ForWord Language to Reading: Targets the skills that help students make the critical link between spoken and written language - sound-letter recognition; decoding; vocabulary, grammar and syntax; listening comprehension; and beginning word recognition.
• Fast ForWord Reading: Rapidly and systematically builds reading skills, focusing on the skills that correlate directly to school curriculum standards - word recognition and fluency; advanced decoding; spelling and vocabulary; and passage comprehension.
• Fast ForWord Advanced Reading: Continued comprehensive training helps students become fluent readers by focusing on the higher-level reading skills that correlate directly to school curriculum standards for spelling and vocabulary, punctuation, literary response and analysis, and reading comprehension.
• Fast ForWord Middle & High School: Rapidly reinforces the skills critical for fluent reading and communication for older students - sustained focus and attention; listening comprehension; sequencing and organization.

Research has demonstrated that a strong foundation in reading is the key to much of an individual’s academic success, from early childhood through adulthood. SEPS provides courses in intensive reading designed to strengthen all aspects of reading, including fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Our intensive, individualized reading programs can be used as remediation, maintenance between school terms, or enhancement. We employ proven methods in two-and-a-half-hour sessions four days a week and can design a package to fit pre-readers, students, and adults.

Available through special arrangements. This individualized program is designed to fit the needs of many different students. Please call for tuition costs and for information on how best to met you student’s educational needs.

Assessments at SEPS consists of diagnostic (cognitive and achievement) testing to evaluate strengths and to determine wheather a subject has any learning or other type of disabilities (diagnostic categories). Assessment includes a written report which gives information on learning styles, accommodations, and remedial strategies. We offer testing for preschool-age children through adults, and assessment provides valuable information for educational, workplace, and social situations. Please feel free to contact SEPS to determine if testing is appropriate for you or your child.

Recreation Programs are offered Monday through Thursday during the school year for children who are off-track as well as after school for children on a traditional school schedule. This program includes arts and crafts, music games, and many other activities, plus weekly cultural and recreational field trips.