Services

The program prepares students from age 6 onwards who are looking to understand, sharpen and develop essential skills in order to:

  • Become a confident test taker
  • Learn to focus and pay attention
  • Learn strategies for coping with AD/HD, language-processing delays, and Asperger’s Syndrome   
  • Increase SAT and other standardized test scores
  • Enhance the motivation to excel
  • Become a more effective communicator orally and in writing
  • Develop successful memory skills
  • Improve reading comprehension
  • Overcome the challenges of dyslexia
  • Master math reasoning concepts
  • Become a better test-taker
  • Enhance social skills development
  • Expand organizational and study skills
  • Accelerate learning

The Level I program focuses on enhancing and expanding a student's school or work experience by focusing on:

  • Helping him or her understand the thinking process and his/her particular strengths and affinities.
  • Pinpointing recurrent themes in learning and performance that signal a need for intervention.
  • Creating an individualized learning plan that specifically addresses the particular learning challenges that the student is experiencing.

Several topics serve as points of departure to expose students to the strategies that will improve their performance across the curriculum; for example:

  • Thinking about Thinking
  • Changing Perspectives
  • Attending to Attention
  • Remembering
  • Expressive and Receptive Language-Building
  • Solving Problems
  • Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning
  • Skill Building
  • Goal Setting
  • Behavioral Modification
  • Putting It All Together

In subsequent levels, Dr. Wicks and her team of specialists build on the foundations established in Level I and focus instruction on the refinement of critical thinking, the reasoning process, and personal development. Students master four or five strategies that will increase organizational focus, expand their analytical and deductive reasoning, improve skills in reading, writing, speaking, and/or math, improve test-taking abilities, increase self-awareness, and develop self-confidence. A continuum of 12-week or 16-week courses is available throughout the year, as students require additional refinement of skills to maximize their performance.

“…Action has magic, grace and power in it.” —Johann von Goethe

Our Programs

  1. Preparation for SAT and other standardized tests for different age groups. (typically 16-24 weeks, 4 hours/week*)
  2. Development of critical thinking, study skills, and organization for the AD/HD profile or dominant right-hemispheric thinker, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  3. Development of executive functions for the ADD/ADHD profile, at various ages. (typically 24 weeks, 2 hours/weeks*)
  4. Reading therapy for dyslexia, at different ages (typically 48-60 weeks, 4 hours/week*)
  5. Reading therapy for comprehension mastery and related language processing problems, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  6. Mastery of writing for clarity, persuasion, and communication, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  7. Refinement of math concepts, math reasoning, and hypothetical/deductive reasoning, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  8. Development of problem-solving skills, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  9. Enhancement of working memory and registration into long-term memory, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*)
  10. Enhancement of social cognition, at various ages. (typically 12 weeks, 2 hours/week*) *Schedules may vary. 
  11. Aptitude, achievement, and cognitive-abilities testing