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Day School is held September through May each year, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Small groups and one-on-one instruction is provided. SEPS Day School follows a traditional 180-day schedule and provides full-time educational programs for students with special learning needs. Time and attention are given to all students to make certain their unique learning styles and educational needs are understood and addressed. SEPS offers a full range of required and elective subjects: reading, language arts, foreign languages, science, social studies, health, writing, art, and mathematics. The student to teacher ratio is 3:1.
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Private Tutoring: 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.
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Summer Day School Summer Sessions begin the first Monday following Memorial Day, and open enrollment continues throughout the summer. Classes meet Monday through Thursday. SEPS offers flexible, individualized, summer school programs. SEPS can accommodate the needs of your student and your family’s summer schedule. SEPS summer school provides an opportunity to catch up on school work or to meet new academic goals. Students may focus on one or two subjects, or work to strengthen particular skills within particular subjects. We instruct students in study skills. SEPS’ instructors work on motor, visual, verbal, and social skills. We teach skills in note taking, testing, listening, following instructions, and asking appropriate questions. In addition to regular summer school classes, SEPS Learning Center offers a recreation program that is available through the summer months.
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Fast ForWord™ 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:
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Intensive Reading 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.
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Preschool is held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday We offer flexible scheduling. Afternoon sessions focus on Kindergarten preparation. SEPS offers small, cross-aged groupings. Because our curriculum is supported by the principles of Cued Speech, our preschool is an ideal learning environment for children who have had difficulties learning to read or who are at risk of auditory processing deficits.
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High School Credits are 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.
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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.
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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.
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Off-Track Day School is offered for students on the year-round schedule. Please contact SEPS for more information.
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Workshops
Writing Students are trained to write academically, technically, and creatively using computers.
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Mathematics This workshop is designed to strengthen students’ basic math skills. Once students have established basic skills, they are introduced to new skills. This workshop covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, integers, pre-algebra, and algebra.
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Readers’ Club is a fun way for students to learn to enjoy good books. Students are divided into upper and lower level groups.
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Test Preparation can help students boost performance on achievement and college admission tests. We offer study workshops and one-on-one instruction on standardized test, e.g., ACT, SAT, GED, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, and MCAT.
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Merit Badge Completion workshop has been approved by the Boys Scouts of America to help children complete their merit badges. Our counselors are prepared to assist students in fulfilling all merit badge requirements, with the exception of badges that include an outdoor/overnight component (i.e., Camping, canoeing, kayaking).
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Extra-Curricular Skill Building are designed to help students develop fine and gross motor coordination, learn rules of games and techniques for improving skills, and appreciate and embrace the ethics of sportsmanship. Activities include bicycle riding, beginning tennis, swimming, juggling, painting, and drawing. Available as private tutoring or a recreational program.
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Recreation Workshop Focus on developing a particular physical skill through work, play, or the arts.
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Create-A-Workshop We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions for workshops, both academic and non-academic, which we could arrange and offer to all of our clients. Please contact us
Cued Speech is a visual-linguistic approach to language acquisition. The CUED Speech method is designed to develop language skills by way of visual cues. In this manner, the basic building block of language acquisition (phonemes) are learned. CUED Speech operates in three movements: eight hand shapes representing consonant phonemes, four placements representing vowel phonemes, with both of these accompanied by mouth shapes. CUED Speech is a relatively easy system to learn and proficiency is easily gained with practice. CUED Speech is an excellent learning tool and is particularly suited for people with hearing impairments or auditory processing problems. SEPS offers workshops throughout the year to teach CUED Speech to the parents and extended family of students.
Teaching Children Social Skills workshop is designed to teach parents and educators about punishment and how to administer punishment appropriately and productively. This workshop also gives adults techniques for teaching children how and when to ask questions and how to find and participate in activities that best suit the child’s interest and enhance the development of their social skills. Participants in this workshop will receive a Certificate of Completion for successful participation.
Decoding English This workshop is designed for parents, teachers, early childhood educators, special education teachers, school administrators, and literacy training instructors. This workshop focuses on the fundamentals of linguistics and teaches practical techniques to adults for understanding syllables, syllabication rules, and linguistic units. This training enables participants to teach others how to distill the complexities of the English language into manageable components. Participants in this workshop will receive a Certificate of Completion for successful participation.