Learning & Executive Function
Every learner is unique, and that success looks different for everyone. Our team of dedicated learning specialists and coaches work to support learning, build confidence, and foster independence.
We take the time to understand each individual’s strengths, challenges, and learning profile. From there, we design a personalized plan that meets their goals, whether that’s improving academic skills, building executive functioning, or simply feeling more confident in the classroom or workplace.
Executive Functions Coaching (EFC) at Sasco River Center follows a three-step process to foster independence in school and life.
STEP 1: Awareness/ Self-Awareness
All EFC begins with a comprehensive intake with a carefully chosen coach. We evaluate the client's challenges, and strengths, and identify goals.
STEP 2: Intervention:
Coaches implement scaffolding and intervention designed to improve emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control by shaping behaviors and helping clients develop skills and strategies.
STEP 3: Independence:
The goal of EFC is that each client gains a toolbox of strategies and skills to use for a lifetime. EFC is not designed to last forever– the goal is full independence.
Tutoring For Learning Differences
Sasco River Center offers individualized academic tutoring support across a wide range of traditional subject areas, such as:
Math
Reading
Writing
History/Social Studies
Science
Public Speaking
Sasco River Center customizes a learning program that will empower your child with the tools needed for success. Our educators have training in numerous scientifically proven curricula, including the Orton-Gillingham method, to address learning disorders.
Executive Functions Coaching
Executive Functions Coaching provides support to foster independent learning. It is designed for children, teens, college students and adults who have difficulty:
Maintaining focus for extended periods
Study skills
Initiating tasks
Remembering oral directions
Breaking down large assignments
Organizing materials
Arranging ideas in writing
Planning ahead
Anticipating consequences
Completing or handing in assignments
Coaches work individually with students who exhibit a gap between knowing what they should do and actually following through with it. We evaluate a student's level of functioning, and then implement interventions designed to improve emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control by shaping behaviors and helping students develop compensatory skills and strategies.
Education / School Advocacy
Sasco River Center's education support team will empower you with the information and strategies you need to have productive and positive conversations with your child's school, help you understand what your child's educational rights are, and guide you as you work with your child's education team to structure the best instructional plan for your child. The goal of the Sasco River Team is to support and assist you as you journey through the special education system while maintaining a respectful and collaborative working relationship with your school district team.
Our services cover:
Conduct a comprehensive review of your child's educational file
Preparation for eligibility meetings, annual reviews, and other school meetings
Attendance and support at Individualized Education Program (IEP) and 504 meetings
Review and suggestions toward the development of Individual Goals and Objectives
Assistance in the development of data collection strategies to monitor your child's progress toward their IEP goals
Coaching when requesting evaluations from your child's school
On-going support to ensure your child's IEP or 504 plan is implemented as designed
Formulating letter to your child's school district
Counseling when out-placement is a consideration for your child
Guidance during pivotal transitions (PreK to K, Elementary School to Middle and to High School, and beyond)
Referrals for legal representation should this level of service becomes a necessary need
The Sasco River Company education support team works with all children and adolescents with special needs regardless of age or disability.
Summer Offerings
Executive Functions Summer Coaching
Our Executive Functions Summer Coaching team offers the same quality executive functions coaching as during the school year. Clients have the opportunity to work on a wide range of skills and focus areas. Summer coaching can be in-person, virtual, or hybrid.
Summer Slide: Don’t go backward this summer! Team up with one of our Learning Coaches to keep your skills fresh in any/all academic subject areas.
Summer Work Support: Did you get summer work assigned? Not to worry; team up with an SRC Learning Coach and get your assigned summer work started, planned, and completed!
SAT / ACT and/or College Application Accountability: Keeping track of studying can be challenging during the summer, but our EF coaches can help you prepare for the ACT/SAT through goal setting, planning, reflection, and accountability. We also offer support in filling out applications, writing essays, and keeping track of all of the many aspects that make up the college admissions process.
Foundations & Remediation
Reading Foundations & Remediation: One-on-one meetings with experienced teachers and a flexible schedule and opportunity for partnership with this year’s / next year’s curricular teachers at the school to define measurable goals for your child.
Math Foundations & Remediation: One-on-one meetings with experienced teachers and a flexible schedule and opportunity for partnership with this year’s / next year’s curricular teachers at the school to define measurable goals for your child.
Extended School Year (ESY)
ESY is a summer learning program that combines curriculum remediation, grade recovery, and course preview opportunities. Designed to make productive use of summer break, the program strengthens academic skills through individualized, one-on-one instruction. Tutoring is led by experienced teachers and coordinated in collaboration with your child’s school to support extended school year services, grade recovery, course previews, foundational skill development, and course review.