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Incredible
Horizons Academy Is on the process of becoming A+ Academy
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Website
@ www.A-plus-academy.com
Mc Kay scholarships
will automatically transfer
Kindergarten through 12th grade
Mc Kay Scholarship
Accepted
Brevard's Best Option for
Attention,
Reading and
Language
Difficulties
Providing more than textbooks and a teacher
How do I get started- If you have an
IEP with the public school
and have been in public school in Florida for
one year- You may qualify for a
scholarship.
You need to be registered by July 3 for McKay
scholarship.
Call 321 751-1313 for an appointment.
If you are currently using McKay Funds at
another private school- You can switch to our school up until August 1.
However spaces are limited it is advised to
make the switch as soon as possible.
Testing & Rehabilitation Services-available
to public-SEE PRICES
Learning Rehabilitation At
Incredible Horizons
New learning technology
gives us the ability to monitor and teach learning & attention
skills. This allows us to provide healthy treatment alternatives
that can enhance confidence and optimize attention, memory &
learning skills for school and in life.
A child’s academic struggle can
be due to malfunctions in the learning process that are deeper
than what other programs/tutors can correct. Our educational
specialists actually uncover what is going wrong with the
learning process and then they correct it. Our programs are
founded in educational cognitive psychology to provide the
correct environment and challenge to facilitate a change in how
the brain functions in learning and life. This allows them to
overcome attentional and learning disorders.
Our goal is more than to get
passing grades or to “fill in gaps” in learning a certain
subject. Our techniques actually repair the learning process and
increase your child’s brain power ability to learn. Our
supportive assessments and intervention facilitate permanent
changes how the brain learns and interprets new information.
We will improve the overall function of the brains capacity to
learn for the rest of their life.
Our methods
have been carefully developed to deliver superior care and heightened learning
opportunities for each child we serve. To that end, our services complement the goals of our program by teaching students though real world experiences and strategies that
are
essential to physical, cognitive and psychological growth.
We
strive to provide the very best learning
rehabilitation tools for the creation
of a success-based environment that will facilitate the
maximization of personal potential.
It is noted if extra fees
apply.
NEW in
July 2007-
We are proud to be the first school in Florida to offer
this tremendous program!!
The
Dynamic Listening System
(DLS)Tomatis,
is the first digital signal processing system to be designed for
Tomatis-based auditory training. Beautiful Mozart music and soothing
Gregorian chant flow from the state-of-the-art DLS equipment through the high
quality Tomatis headphones used by the listener. This increases the capacity to learn by
improving how the brain is functioning.
If you are at a stand still or plateau
with other therapies-ie. ABA, Floortime etc.-You have probably benefited all you can
from that therapy until you improve how the brain actually functions. Programs
like ABA and floortime can only be as effective as the current neurological
construct allows them to be. The neuro-technology aspect of DLS Tomatis'
will improve neurological functioning of the brain thus, maximizing the ability
to learn and progress in other therapies. Furthermore, DLS Tomatis has proven itself to
be the most refined and efficient Tomatis based program in today's market.
More on Brain Plasticity
Don't miss out on this
opportunity to learn more about how this music-based
sound stimulation can help you or your child expand your capabilities.
Listening training may be your key to living life more fully.
Tomatis
Listening programs stimulate the:
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Auditory system
for listening with greater accuracy and focus, tuning out background
noise and experiencing less sound sensitivity.
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Vestibular system
for better balance, motor coordination and muscle tone.
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Brain
for improved sensory integration, eye contact, speech, language,
thinking, memory and attention span.
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Emotions
for greater motivation, optimism, self-confidence and desire to connect
with others.
During an auditory training session,
children have fun playing with toys, games, puzzles and crafts such as beading,
drawing and painting.
(Extra fees are usually needed- Insurance can be billed
under speech and language coverage)
IHA innovative programs available to all students to enhance brain
power
Offered
privately or as part
of Incredible Horizons Academy Curriculum
The Listening Program™ is a Music-Based
Tomatis method that trains the brain to improve the auditory
skills needed to effectively concentrate, listen, learn, and
communicate. It literally exercises and tones tiny muscles in
the ear and helps build stronger multi-sensory pathways in the
brain. The brain receives especially rich auditory stimulation,
and its ability to process sound improves. TLP helps attention
problems, reading/language problems and improves auditory
processing abilities.
Computerized Brain Gym-The use of computer
programs allows us to document your child’s progress each time
they sit down. These game-like brain-training exercises speak to
the user in a realistic human voice, making the individual feel
as if they are playing a real person who encourages, praises,
and challenges them to do their best. They provide an engaging
multi-sensory stimulation that builds the brains ability to
learn more efficiently.
◄SoundSmart was
designed to help improve phonemic awareness, listening skills,
math, working memory, mental processing speed, and
self-control..
◄Captains
Log is a
computerized brain gym that will help develop and remediate
attention, concentration, memory, eye-hand coordination, basic
numeric concepts, problem solving-reasoning skills, self-esteem,
and self-control. It is used worldwide to help adults and
children (Ages 6 and up) with ADHD, brain injuries, or learning
disabilities gain the basic cognitive skills necessary for
successful living and learning.
◄SmartDriver® is a stimulating,
entertaining, non-violent driving game designed to improve
visual tracking skills, hand-eye coordination, planning,
attention to detail, concentration, memory, and patience.
The Lexia family of products improve the student's
reading skills through a phonics based, multi-sensory approach.
Based on the widely publicized Orton-Gillingham method, Lexia
uses a combination of sound, images, and software-based
manipulatives. Research has shown that
the earlier children with potential reading difficulties can be
identified, the easier it is to overcome the reading problems.
◄Phonics Based Reading is for children ages 5 to 8.
Phonics Based Reading provides hundreds of exercises for
practice in phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence,
word attack skills, and early comprehension skills, while
introducing nearly 2,000 vocabulary words.
 ◄Lexia Reading S.O.S. is a reading skills development
system designed especially for older students, ages 9 through
adult, presented in a mature interface. The activities provide
practice in decoding skills, early comprehension, and keyboard
skills. Students need to show both competency and fluency in
each skill before moving on.
Why we chose Lexia for
our special needs students
◄Lexia Visual & Cognitive Trainer works on
different kinds of "muscles": visualization, visual memory, mental rotation,
visual tracking, spatial orientation, and multi-perspective coordination, among
other skills. The software helps to strengthen students' thinking, memory, and
problem-solving skills, thereby improving
performance in varied subjects such as reading, math, science, and social
studies. More on Lexia and Special Ed
◄Group
Tutoring-Handwriting without Tears, TouchMath, Language Arts,
Reading Comprehension
Incredible Horizons Premium Services
Extra fees involved
Services
offered privately
Student health insurance can
sometimes be used for these services
ABA-Applied Behavior
Analysis is the design, implementation, and evaluation of
environmental modifications to produce socially significant
improvement in human behavior. ABA includes the use of direct
observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the
relations between environment and behavior.
ABA uses these principles to set up an environment in which our
kids learn as much as they can as quickly as possible. It may
seem odd to use the word "behavior" when talking about learning
to talk, play, and function in the educational environment, but
to a behaviorist all these can be taught, so long as there
are intact brain functions to learn
and practice the skills.
Neurofeedback-
Edufeedback is the brand of neurofeedback that we use at
Incredible Horizons. Edufeedback is the most comprehensive
learning tool because it strengthens the core components of the
learning process, teaches academic skills, and applies
behavioral modification strategies. Our system is the only
learning system to combine real-time feedback with educational
protocols that provide specific skill work necessary to be
highly successful during the learning process. Edufeedback is
the only neurofeedback system with an academic bridge that
ensures generalization to learning and life skills.
Student health insurance can often be used for her services.
Our speech language
pathologist privately offers the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS)™.
Lindamood-Bell programs are internationally recognized as one of the most
effective methods for developing literacy skills. The LiPS® Program successfully
stimulates phonemic awareness. Individuals become aware of the mouth actions
which produce speech sounds. This awareness becomes the means of verifying
sounds within words and enables individuals to become self-correcting in reading
and spelling, and speech.
Student health insurance can often be used for her services.
1
to1 tutoring/direct instruction for all subject areas-We
provide the individual attention, personalized lesson plans and the positive
reinforcement students need to achieve their goals. We identify skill
competencies and skill deficits through assessment, and then develop an
individualized plan for teaching specific objectives. Our experienced,
competent and compassionate tutors ensure that your child truly understands
and masters a skill before moving on to the next level
Our new DLS Tomatis program
is a premium service-see top of page
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Trisha Gorgol hosting -ABA, speech, 1-1 tutoring, nuerofeedback-Graduate of UCF
in communicative disorders
Testing for Learning Disabilities
Offered
privately or as part
of Incredible Horizons Academy Curriculum as noted
We are under the belief that
educational difficulties are seldom psychologically based.
Undergoing huge batteries of tests (that are very costly) is
unnecessary.
The following tests are skill based and can be
completed in one appointment.
We searched for the best tools
that directly test the skills that need to be tested.
This saves you time and money-
The SCAN C/ Scan A
will allow us to identify children who have auditory processing
disorders and who may benefit from intervention. They should
be used when children have normal hearing acuity but who appear
to have poor listening skills, short auditory attention span, or
difficulty understanding speech. -
Given to all IHA students
The Dyslexia Screener:
The Dyslexia Screener (TDS) is a direct diagnostic method based
on the Boder Reading /Spelling test and the Dyslexia
Determination test (DDT). The test evaluates the decoding and
encoding of words. Testing will distinguish between the three
basic types of dyslexia as well as providing a severity index.
Grades 2-9
Given to all IHA students
Frye Diagnostic Test- An extensive diagnostic with five
separate evaluations to determine instructional reading grade,
comprehension grade level, spelling level, instructional
language level, short term memory test
Given to all
IHA students
Captain's Log® DOS
is the most widely
used, comprehensive set of computerized cognitive
training/testing program ever published.
This program pinpoints barriers in the learning process.
We sort the testing data three different ways by module, by
educational skill and by cognitive task. We strengthen those
same skills though Captain’s Log- Windows.
Given to select students
IVA (Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance
Test) is a comprehensive computerized test of attention,
visual and auditory processing speed, and self control used by
health professionals in identifying and diagnosing attention
related difficulties.
Given to select students
Neurotransmitter
Profiles-
Medical research has shown
that many problems associated with today's fast-paced lifestyle
can be linked to an imbalance in neurotransmitters and hormone
levels. By providing testing, therapeutic, and technical support
for these important neuroendocrine parameters,
NeuroScience enables healthcare providers to more effectively
identify and address the patient’s clinical condition.
Testing is a home kit picked up at Incredible Horizons Academy that is mailed directly to lab.
Extra fee involved
Home School Support Services
The Success
Project of Brevard offers expertise in home schooling special
needs children. We realize that home schooling often requires
more than a textbook to teach from. The Play N Learn store will
offer multi sensory teaching items and home school curriculum.
Because our staff also interact with the curriculum sold in the
store, we can provide a better sense of what you might need to
be successful then a regular curriculum store does.
We can coach
you through; choosing a curriculum based on your child's
learning style and developing an individualized educational
plan, as well as grading and testing your child. In choosing our
most intensive home schooling support program .
Our computerized curriculum saves you from having to
instruct or prepare lessons. Lessons are taught from certified
teachers with videos accessed through this system. Its such a
relief for students to have this verbal input available with the
curriculum. Especially if they are auditory learners. The nice
thing is that it it is very affordable too.
We assist Parents with any or all of the following:
Administering diagnostic evaluations for placement in the core
subjects
Reviewing results of the evaluation
Assessing which curriculum is best for students learning style
Making recommendations regarding placement in that curriculum
Providing online or printed curriculum
Academic assistance to ensure the students success
Creating timely reports
Special Education & Lexia
Thousands of schools nationwide have made Lexia part of their Special
Education programs to help children learn to read better.
Students who struggle with learning often have difficulty with reading
comprehension, spoken language, writing, and reasoning ability. Symptoms
such as hyperactivity, inattention, and perceptual coordination problems are
also common. Children with dyslexia, a common learning disability,
experience difficulty reading, spelling and writing. Dyslexic students
often suffer from an assortment of other problems including difficulties in
math, auditory processing, organizational skills, and memory.
Though a disparity between learning-disabled and non-learning disabled
students may always exist, more emphasis on foundational skills, especially
those that develop cognitive and reading skills, can help learning-disabled
students bridge the gap. Lexia’s programs provide these skills in a
systematic manner of both structured phonics and cognitive skills.
Furthermore, the engaging format of Lexia’s software keeps students
interested while still maintaining an educational environment.
Special education students can benefit greatly from Lexia's many different
software programs.
Lexia's reading skills software focuses on improving reading
comprehension by strengthening phonemic awareness, sound-symbol
correspondence, decoding, fluency, phonics and vocabulary. The software,
which serves everyone from 4 year olds to adults, provides students with
independent practice and instruction, all of which aligns with curriculum
standards and federal guidelines.
Lexia’s cognitive skills programs develop the cognitive skills that
underlie visual and conceptual learning and are vital to success in reading,
mathematics, science and social science. Intended for students of ages 7 to
adult, Lexia Cross Trainer strengthens their thinking, memory, and
problem-solving abilities.
Lexia’s reading programs build strengths in phonemic
awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, decoding, fluency, phonics and
vocabulary - areas researchers have identified as essential to
comprehension.
At each level, students navigate independently through an increasingly
complex sequence of engaging, skill-building activities that use
age-appropriate graphics and high-quality audio with clear, consistent
pronunciation. Students gain competence as the software automatically
adjusts to each user’s progress and presents additional practice when
necessary.
Based on the proven Orton-Gillingham method of reading
remediation, Lexia software provides a structured approach to mastering
reading skills that correlates easily with lesson plans and curriculum
standards, and aligns with federal guidelines. User-friendly database
capabilities help teachers and administrators to monitor individual and
group performance over time.
Got Attention Problems, try our home base programs. Or Come and see us.
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