The DISCOVERY PROGRAM at The King’s Academy, a member of the National Institute of Learning Development, Norfolk, VA, is a program of preventive, corrective, and supportive intervention for students who struggle to learn.

• Preventive:  Search & Teach scans all children in kindergarten and first grade to identify those who need extra work in perceptual skills (auditory, visual, motor) to become skilled readers. The emphasis is on strengthening pre-requisite skills before failure occurs.
  
  
• Corrective:  Educational Therapy is offered to those who have been diagnosed with a learning disability.  Intervention is aimed at stimulating deficit cognitive and perceptual skill areas and developing students who are able to be independent learners.
  
  
• Supportive:  Remedial Instruction is offered through tutors who are trained to assist students to be successful with classroom content while the educational therapy process is taking place. In addition, Academic Accountability is available for those who need help with the organizational aspects of their school endeavors.  An after-school Homework Clinic, staffed by a trained tutor is available three afternoons per week.

The DISCOVERY PROGRAM features

• One-to-one intervention;
• Trained personnel;
• Team orientation (parent, teachers, therapist);
• All-age inclusiveness;
• Integrative techniques, including perceptual and academic skills;
• Individual and intense;
• Aims for long-term change;
• Improved social relationships;
• Improved self image;
• Development of responsibility;
• Research validated.

Testing Information

Our testing battery is a two-part process.  The first part of the battery is administered by an educational therapist at school.  This testing is designed to reveal your child’s academic and processing strengths and weaknesses.  The total time for this part of the battery is approximately 4 hours (given in two or three sessions).  This testing is scheduled during regular school hours, and includes the following:

Formal Tests:    Wide-Range Achievement Test (WRAT-3), Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement-III, Roe/Burns Informal Reading Inventory,GORT or Eckwall Oral Reading Inventory,Auditory Discrimination Test (Wepman),Beery VMI

Informal Tests: Draw A Person, Draw A Clock, Days/Months, Alphabet/Numbers, Dictation and Copy, Writing Sample

The fee for the academic evaluation is $ 200.00 and is payable at the time of testing.

The second part of the testing battery is the administration of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV, and the Bender Motor Gestalt Test.  These tests are given by a licensed psychologist, and provide a profile of the student’s learning strengths and weaknesses. 

This testing may be done through the public school system or a private psychologist.  The King’s Academy will make a referral for this at your request. 

Collectively, the testing provides a framework for evaluation, diagnosis, and recommendations for educational intervention.  It will also provide information for your child’s teachers regarding how to best work with him/her in the classroom.

After all testing is complete and reports are prepared, we will contact you to set up a conference with both parents and teachers to discuss the results and recommendations.