Programs

The program, designed and facilitated by early childhood experts, focuses on key areas of learning and development including early literacy, early numeracy, speech language acquisition, social and emotional learning, and physical literacy to give families a detailed snapshot of their child’s learning and development to date, and engage young children in hands-on learning opportunities carefully scaffolded to individual child’s needs.

Our customized and creative week-long Vancouver camps helping students with learning differences develop new skills through fun, hands-on camp programs with a high instructor-to-camper ratio.

A team approach from our highly qualified learning support staff and our amazing team of specialized, passionate instructors, will provide students with reading intervention and math skills to build foundational academic skills.

Our Academic Intensive offers students intensive, individualized learning support to build foundational academic skills in literacy and math.

Identify an area of need and stay on track during the summer. Experienced instructors tutor students in core curriculum and secondary courses such as English, Math, Science and Socials.

Our dynamic neuro-affirming group is developed and led by a Speech-Language Pathologist. It gives students the opportunity to practice social skills, emotional and personal development and build friendships.

Developed from BC’s Core Competencies, research-based curricula, and our intake process, the RISE Method offers an individualized approach to suit the learning difficulties and strengths of each of our students.

The RISE Now program pairs adult learners with a specialized and compassionate instructor to work towards their career, education, or life goals.

RISE TEAM is specifically designed for teen students and will include explicit academic instruction to focus on the needs, interests, and abilities of the teen.

The goal of this program is to improve student independence, confidence, and academic success by addressing identified skill gaps and learning challenges.

This can be useful for families who are waiting for a psycho-educational assessment or suspect that their child is not on grade level in certain academic areas. This can be an especially useful tool for families to advocate for learning accommodations for their child.

This can be useful for families who are waiting for a psycho-educational assessment or suspect that their child is not on grade level in certain academic areas. This can be an especially useful tool for families to advocate for learning accommodations for their child.

We are collaborating with the University of British Columbia’s Psychological Services and Counselling Training Centre (PSCTC). The PSCTC is a university-based setting for clinical training and research within the UBC’s Faculty of Education.

Our customized and creative week-long Vancouver camps helping students with learning differences develop new skills through fun, hands-on camp programs with a high instructor-to-camper ratio.

We are happy to discuss issues including those related to: online learning, home schooling, in-school learning, executive functioning and organizational skills, advocating for your child in the school system, assisting your child with homework, strategies to reduce anxiety or stress related to learning, and more.

Our neuro-affirming club promotes social, emotional and personal development as participants learn and play chess. Suitable for all experience levels.

Our Summer School Success program helps high school students succeed in summer school by providing them with one-to-one tutoring and homework support.

LDS Access serves families where they are regardless of their ability to pay, breaking down transportation, financial, and social barriers for children with learning differences.

We are carefully identifying and assessing potential assistive technologies for specific use in individual student’s learning plans to maximize the benefit to each student.

Specific exercises are being developed that are expected to enhance student progress, in particular in areas that relate to social-emotional skills and speech-language.

The goal of this program is to improve student independence, confidence, and academic success.

Our week-long, full-day summer camps provide not only engaging and educational programming for our campers, but also convenient scheduling for working families.

This mentorship program is designed to provide both academic and social supports that will enrich both the mentor and the mentee.