Learning Interventions Cohorts
We are excited to announce that we will start making the protocols that have proven successful through our custom programs with kids having highly-complex learning profiles to students who share overlapping needs, but do not require the level of personalization and expertise of our custom programs.
Learning Intervention Programs will be offered in fall, 2022 for the following cohorts of students, demand permitting. Students whose needs are not represented below or for whom our team believes that additional programming support or customization will be required beyond that which is integrated into our Learning Interventions programs will be considered for our other programming levels.
Sensory Processing Disorder & Associated Executive Function Challenges
Our Sensory Processing Learning Interventions Program is intended for students who struggle with organization and sensory regulation but who are on or close to grade level academically and do not have other learning or social-emotional differences.
Sensory integration therapy will be embedded into classroom instruction through Body-Informed Learning techniques and classes co-taught by our licensed occupational and physical therapists. Students will receive coaching in how to self-manage their sensory and organizational needs and will learn the science behind them, fostering an authentic growth mindset and independence across settings.
Reading Interventions
This program is tailored to the needs of students who do not struggle with decoding words and/or have strong phonological processing skills, but who are easily frustrated or fatigued by reading nonetheless. This may include students whose reading challenges do not respond to Orton-Gillingham or Wilson reading programs.
Programs include ongoing consultations and assessments by our on-staff neuropsychologist and tailored Neuroplasticity Interventions increasing capacity to perform specific, targeted reading skills, through a process and approach that has proven successful through our work with complex learners who have reading struggles in addition to other special education needs.
Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia & other Motor Planning & Coordination Disorders
Our Motor Coordination Learning Interventions program is designed for students who struggle with gross and/or fine motor planning and coordination. These needs tend to be underdiagnosed, but can display as a student who “hates” to write, fails to write out the steps in math, avoids athletics or struggles with basic life skills required to get out the door in the morning.
This is a comprehensive program encompassing differentiated academic instruction, co-taught classrooms with embedded services from our expert, licensed occupational and physical therapists to increase the student’s capacity to perform motor tasks, and social-emotional programming tailored to the impact of atypical motor coordination on social-emotional development.
Frequently Asked Questions About our Learning Interventions Programs
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Learning Interventions Programs will be offered to cohorts of 4-6 kids who share similar learning and social-emotional profiles and are of a similar age and academic abilities, as demand permits. Please refer to the description of each cohort to learn more about the admissions criteria for that particular program.
Students who have more complex profiles, require a more intensive therapeutic course to address academic impacts or for whom enrollment does not support a cohort-based program at the tuition rate below will be offered custom programs.
Students who have one of the profiles described below together with social-emotional or regulatory needs that, in our team’s judgement, exceed the scope of our Learning Interventions cohorts will instead be considered for enrollment in our Journeys Program. Should those needs resolve, the student will be considered for a reduction in tuition aligning to a Learning Interventions programming level.
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Each “Learning Interventions” program will include all of the components of our Core Program, but they will be tailored across all areas to a specifically-defined learning profiles. This includes:
Standards-driven project-based learning
Movement and sensory-enriched Body-Informed Learning
Executive function instruction embedded into class instruction
Social skills development
Trauma- and Neuro-Informed Approach, with integrated self-regulation coaching
“Human 101” curriculum fostering growth mindset through neuroscientific understanding
Neuroplasticity interventions to build up low-lying skills
Please click on the links below to learn more about how programming is specialized for a given cohort or profile.
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All families interested in one of our Learning Interventions programs should complete our online application. Decisions as to programming levels are made by the Cajal Academy team based on a full file review; students who are not eligible for a Learning Interventions program will automatically be considered for other appropriate programming levels, so you will not need to fill in a second application.
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Yes and yes! As we continue to work with complex learners who have multiple areas of special needs, we will continue to develop protocols and ‘packages’ for common cohorts of twice exceptional students. We will add those cohorts here as that work progresses, as part of our mission to make neurocience-driven education available to more kids. In the meantime, we continue to accept and create customized programs for students who have very high analytical reasoning skills, coupled with a wide variety of special needs.
Flexible tuition arrangements & affording a Cajal Academy education
Special education programs are costly, but there are a number of ways that families can get assistance, depending on their child’s needs and circumstances, including tax deductions, school district funding and flexible tuition payment schedules.