Tutoring and Coaching
Academics and Life Skills
DDLD designs your learning plan with you at the controls. Sessions will use goals based on academic materials, results from the Assessment of Functional Living Skills or other individualized evaluation tools, to provide the most effective means of delivering instruction or coaching for school and vocational success.
This helps in monitoring student progress. We will identify important sensory and motor objectives and break these learning goals into manageable steps.
Executive function is more than just staying organized. In the long term, students learn to regulate their emotions, communicate effectively, and build healthy relationships.
Below, see examples of the other moving parts for your learning design.
Learning Design Menu:
Make Yours A Whole-Person Approach
Integrated Listening Systems (iLs) is a great complement to learning new things. Music frequencies provide us with a great foundation as a stimulus to the parasympathetic nervous system, creating feelings of safety for both organizing and calming. Listening is accompanied by planned movements which are supported by occupational therapy and research. iLs is a bottom-up approach that creates a foundation of sensory regulation, which can then support the effectiveness of top-down cognitive strategies such as tutoring and coaching. A great opener for learning.
Details about this system of practice can be offered at your first session.
Spelling to Communicate (S2C):
Practitioner Coached, supported by
Communication Regulation Partners (CRPs)
Nonspeakers and unreliable speakers are released from silence as they learn to use letterboards and eventually the computer keyboard to be heard. Working with their practitioner, they are empowered to speak and tell their stories as they progress from 3 letterboards to one 26-letter board and eventually a single laminate, then keyboard.
They will be coached in related movement planning and practice and develop functional living skills along the way.
Spellers help with the training of their other Communication Regulation Partners (CRP) so they may be independent everywhere and empowered to do the great things they tell us they wish to do every day.
