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Greek Secondary School Limassol
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Learning Support Centre
General InformationThe American Academy operates a Greek and English speaking Learning Support Centre that offers highly specialised help to children with dyslexia and other learning difficulties in the areas of reading, spelling, writing, reading comprehension and maths.
All teaching staff are university graduates, experienced and specially trained in helping children with various special educational needs. The environment is relaxed and friendly and the management and parents are in close contact which
ensures cooperation from both sides.
The Learning Support Centre has acquired such a reputation in Limassol which now renders it as a point of reference for learning difficulties and, more than that, it has become the landmark of remedial teaching.
The Learning Support Centre of the American Academy Limassol organises lectures, with experts on dyslexia from both Cyprus and abroad, for parents and the public in order to increase general awareness concerning the existence and problems pertinent to dyslexia. These lectures aim to help parents identify their children's potential learning problems and seek specialised help in time.
Programme Description / Teaching Methods
The teaching method is based on one-to-one tuition or on groups of not more than four. Tuition usesa multi-sensory approach to improve reading, spelling, writing and mathematics. Various resources are used such as books, multi-sensory teaching aids and software. Through structured exercise children are helped to overcome their difficulties and learn at their own pace. Tuition is provided forthe ages 5 to 15.
The teaching focuses on the difficulties revealed in the initial assessment and the programmes are tailored to individual needs. The progress of each child is followed up and monitored by an Educational Psychologist and progress reports are prepared and given to parents every term.
Tutoring is between 2.00 pm to 7.00 pm and each lesson lasts one hour.
Students attend lessons at least three times a week.
The Learning Support Centre is an afternoon Accelerated Learning Centre offering assistance in learning and studying tohelp students who:
- find it difficult to concentrate for long periods of time
- are restless in class
- have difficulty understanding ideas and/or concepts
- are falling behind at school
- have reading, writing and mathematical skills below the average for their age
Our specialised team of teachers:
- help students with learning difficulties overcome their weakness and develop their full potential
- design structured programmes of written language provision
- provide appropriate educational methods suited toindividual student needs and
Make learning fun in a stress free atmosphere
Methodology
Assessments
Use of standardised tests each term
Multi-Sensory Method
Simultaneous Oral Spelling Method (SOS)
Fernald Method
LiFLexiA (Light Flow Lexical Approach)
PC Programmes
Mathematics