Course Descriptions

This course is designed for students who have difficulty with the comprehension, retention, evaluation or analysis required for success with their general academic program. An assessment is followed by a program to strengthen any under-developed abilities. Students will develop their comprehension, memory and problem solving at the basic, foundational level, and will learn concepts underlying the mathematics and language arts curriculum.

This course is designed for students who have difficulty with more advanced comprehension, retention, evaluation or analysis required for success with their general academic program. Students will strengthen their cognitive abilities in the areas of comprehension, memory and problem solving, and will learn concepts underlying the mathematics and language arts curriculum.

This course is designed for students who have physically-based perceptual problems affecting their academic success. For example, while the eyes may see, the brain may not necessarily understand what is being looked at. An assessment is undertaken and students are given an individualized program of activities. The activities are progressive in nature. Foundation level activities are undertaken in this course.

This course involves more advanced perceptual skills development activities. Like VISN 020, the prerequisite course, this course is designed for students who have physically-based perceptual problems affecting their academic success. For example, while the eyes may see, the brain may not necessarily understand what is being looked at. An assessment is undertaken and students are given an individualized program of activities. Advanced level activities are undertaken in this course.

This course is designed for students who have auditory processing problems affecting their ability to succeed with their general academic curriculum. These problems are identified through the VISN 010 assessment and through observation in VISN 020. This course provides a range of auditory processing exercises geared to strengthening auditory processing abilities.

This course is designed for students who need direct instruction with the fundamental concepts needed to benefit from language arts instruction. Many students gain the concepts through language arts instruction itself, but many do not. It presents basic linguistic concepts in as concrete a form as possible. It is not a substitute for language arts instruction. This course provides the framework for learning detailed linguistic standards, procedures, and techniques.

This course is designed for students who begin to flounder when the math curriculum turns from memorization to the broader application of concepts and the understanding of more abstract math. The focus is on developing the cognitive foundations needed and the acquisition of the concepts underlying math skills, not on arithmetic or math skills themselves. The approach is specifically designed for non-semantic learners, but semantic learners can benefit as well.

This course is designed for students who have memory problems. Memory is the ability to retrieve previously learned or cognized information. Good cognition does not necessarily mean good memory. Cognition is the ability to take in information, whereas memory is the ability to bring back information. Memory is often assumed to be present, but if it is not, it can cause significant frustrations to both students and instructors. This course is designed to develop memory.

This course is not intended as reading instruction. It is designed for those people who have not succeeded with learning to read. Reading instruction rests on presuppositions about students? perceptual skills, cognitive abilities, and conceptual repertoire. This course is designed to help meet these presuppositions so students can be successful with reading instruction.