Huff Learning Center Programs

Skill Building

  • Provides an individualized tutorial program for academic subjects
  • Augments the classroom instruction
  • Works closely with the classroom teacher to identify weaknesses
  • Targets good study skills

Academic Coaching

  • Provides help for students (6th-12th) who often have difficulty organizing and managing homework and tests.
  • Provides a study skills specialist to students (who have been identified as needing additional assistance) to help them coordinate their education program and teach them to become successful.
  • Provides the following types of assistance:
    • organizational help
    • test-taking skills
    • tracking homework and grades
    • helping family to develop structure and routine at home
    • encouragement and counseling to student and family
    • facilitation of communication between home and school

NILD

Discovery Program - NILD

  • An "internationally recognized program" for students (elementary-high school) who struggle to learn. For more information, please go to www.nild.org
  • Uses interactive language and multi-sensory interventions to develop core academic skills and higher order thinking and processing skills.
  • Focuses on teaching the student "how" to think versus "what" to think in order to enable them to overcome specific learning issues in the areas of reading, spelling, mathematics, handwriting, written expression, listening, and reasoning.
  • Individual and intensive sessions are provided weekly.
  • NILD/Discovery personnel receive continual on-going professional training

For more information on the NILD/Discovery Program at CCS, please download the following document:

Search and Teach - NILD

  • The program is an early (primarily kindergarten and first grade) intervention program developed to meet the educational needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure.
  • Focuses on developing foundational skills necessary for success in reading.
  • Provides individualized sessions which meet twice a week for 30 minutes each.
  • Focuses on targeting the deficit areas through techniques that build perceptual skills such as visual memory, auditory sequential memory, directionality and motor skills.