About ILC
Idaho Learning Center (ILC) encourages students who learn differently to reach their fullest potential by providing a highly effective approach to education and remediation. Dyslexia and other language based learning differences hinder the success of many smart students. In fact, 1 in every 10 students will suffer from a difficulty that can seriously hinder the learning process.
ILC provides an individualized approach to the needs of the student by using highly effective interventions along with the support of a powerful mentoring approach. Students receive intervention during or after school at least twice a week. Our educational therapists provide advocacy and case management as necessary to help cement the student�s growth.
Additional services available include:
Tutoring
ACT/SAT Prep
Independent Study
Summer Camps
Summer Tutoring
Educational Therapy
The four elements represented within the figure eight emphasize our comprehensive approach in developing the ability to learn.
Deficits in perception and/or thinking skills (cognition) impact the learning process and create uneven academic performance. The learning process is depicted below as a wall of various components -- academic building blocks. Perceptual and cognitive skills form the foundation. If any areas, such as visual/auditory memory or abstract/logical thinking are vulnerable, the wall is unstable. When this happens, all academic areas can be affected, diminshing future learning.
Educational therapy helps to strengthen perceptual deficits and thinking skills, evening out and strengthening the wall, and making the learning process functional and efficient. Students are able to learn independently. Like physical therapy or speech therapy, educational therapy boosts weaker or vulnerable systems.
Intervention
Students of all ages with learning struggles come to the Idaho Learning Center twice a week for educational therapy. Our intensive mediated approach to learning brings students up to grade- and ability-level, giving them confidence and competence for life-long learning.
Our Educational Therapy approach is unique:
- Deficit Stimulation: Strengthen learning skills that are weak
- Non-Tutorial: Learning skills, not specific content
- Integrative: Stimulating both perceptual and academic skills
- Individual and Intense: Affecting lasting cognitive change through skilled mediation between therapist and student
- Non-Compensatory: Intervention to strengthen a weakness rather than merely to compensate
- All Ages: Enhancing thinking for individuals at all stages of life
Assessment
A complete series of psycho-educational tests are used to identify areas of cognitive strengths and patterns of weaknesses. Based upon initial and annual assessments, an individualized educational therapy program is designed for each student to stimulate cognitive functioning.