Assessments
What is a psychoeducational assessment?
A psychoeducational assessment is a comprehensive evaluation conducted by a psychologist to assess an individual’s cognitive and academic abilities. The primary purpose of a psychoeducational assessment is to investigate the nature of the client’s challenges so that informed decisions regarding appropriate educational programming can be made.
It is essential to conduct these assessments using a variety of tools and methods to ensure accurate and comprehensive results. This process helps educators, parents, and other professionals better understand an individual’s learning profile and formulate appropriate strategies to facilitate their academic success and overall well-being.
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Costs Involved
- Psychoeducational Assessment - $2200
- Autism Spectrum Assessment - $3500
Summer Camps
The Summer Sunshine Day Camp, hosted by the Learning Disabilities Association of Saskatchewan, offers a summer of pure fun and new friends. Children do not need to have a learning disability diagnosis in order to attend.
Both our Saskatoon and Regina locations will be offering Sunshine Summer Day Camp for 2024.
LDAS prides itself on delivering a fun-filled day with lots of activities and educational opportunities. Summer Sunshine Day Camps – a home away from home!
The days are packed and busy when your child is participating in the Summer Sunshine Day Camps! Get ready for morning engagement. Campers aged 7 – 11, participate in fun activities such as games, centers, crafts, computers, just to name a few! In the afternoons, the kids will enjoy outings and activities with a focus on FUN, FUN, FUN!
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Saskatoon camp, feel free to reach out to StephanieT@LDAS.org.
For any questions or concerns regarding the Regina camp, feel free to Contact Us.
Schedule:
8am – 9am: Drop off
9am – 4pm: programmed events and activities
4pm – 5pm: pick up
Employability Coaching
Working with LDAS’s Saskatoon’s Employability Coach, you will be able to
- Identify a career path and how to get there
- Identify barriers to success
- Construct a resume and cover letter that matches your employment goals
- Prepare for the job interview
- Learn the soft skills that are essential to surviving in the workplace
- Learn coping strategies to ensure job sustainability
- Identify other resources available to you in the community
The process:
The first step is to contact LDAS for an assessment interview. You will then be contacted by an Employability Coach, who will work with you, respecting your career aspirations, goals, challenges and skills set. If you want to move out of a job into a career, then the Coach will help you develop that action plan. If you are frustrated with not being able to find a job, the Coach will help you to build on your strengths and overcome barriers to success.
For more information, contact LDAS, Saskatoon at 306-652-4114.
ADHD Coaching
ADHD Coaches provide support for some of the day-to-day struggles that individuals with ADHD regularly encounter by helping clients to implement structures and routines to address their challenges.
ADHD Coaching is focused on assisting with:
- time management
- organization
- prioritizing tasks
- task initiation and completion
- planning
- attention
- self-monitoring
Insight into the Coaching Process:
The coach creates a safe environment that encourages honest and open communication. This environment exists on a foundation of unconditional acceptance of the client coupled with information and instruction about ADHD. The coach becomes the client’s champion, reinforcing and reminding them of their natural talents and successes.
For further information on ADHD Coaching please contact our Saskatoon office at 306-652-4114 or our Regina office at 306-790-8452.
Adult Education/GED
GED Program
- Pre-GED prep class
- GED prep class
- Monday – Thursday, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Part-time options may be available
Criteria:
- Motivated and able attend a full-time academic program
- May have completed a Modified Grade 12 but NOT a Regular Grade 12
- 18 years of age or over
Adult Education offered in all three locations:
Saskatoon – 306-652-4114
Prince Albert – 306 – 922-1071
Regina – 306-790-8452
**Program offered year round**
Academic Strategy
“Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practised and then it is shared.” ~ Sparky Anderson
Taking into account your strengths and challenges, an Academic Strategist helps you to understand how to achieve your academic goals. The Academic Strategist assists you in the development of useful tools that you can use to help you succeed in your studies.
Weekly sessions with the Strategist often include:
- Open collaboration with students to find tools & strategies that they are willing to use
- Support in the form of academic coaching, technology training, assistance with academic writing
- Reviewing the recommendations on their personal psycho-educational assessment
- Providing a variety of strategies to improve learning
- Identifying barriers and providing strategies to overcome them
- Providing tools and resources to help students find balance, organization and efficiency
- Time management techniques
- Discussing possible technology that would assist learning
- Assistance navigating Student Loans and the paperwork associated with the Students with Permanent Disabilities – Grant Application
To book an appointment with the Academic Strategist please contact our Saskatoon office at (306) 652-4114.
Academic Tutoring
Academic Tutoring is a one-on-one service intended to help learners from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
Tutoring offers personalized learning support in the areas students need most, such as:
- Reading skills, including phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Struggling readers can be tutored using the Barton Reading System, which is an Orton-Gillingham influenced, multisensory, systematic phonics program.
- Writing skills for all ages. Our tutors can assist with skills like letter formation, or support more advanced concepts, such as essay writing.
- Math skills, from fact fluency all the way through high school level content.
A learning disability is not required to receive services. Tutoring sessions are guaranteed to have at least 45 minutes of instructor support and can be offered both in person and virtually.
If you would like to know more about tutoring, please contact us. Our helpful staff will schedule an intake interview so the student can be personally matched with the tutor best-suited to help them achieve academic success.
Academic Intervention Program
Our Focus:
To promote academic growth and independence through evidence-based practices and a supportive and collaborative environment.
Key Program Objectives:
- Small Class Size
- 10 to 1 ratio of student to teacher.
- Allows for more interactions between student and teacher and for more feedback from teacher.
- Individualized academic programming
- Students are assessed regularly to inform programming based on their unique academic needs
- Focus on remedial math and literacy
- In Numeracy, students will be placed at their skill level as opposed to actual grade level and work their way through consistent and repetitive work with guidance and assistance.
- In Literacy, we will use a Science of Reading approach to make sure students have a systematic explicit phonics program for reading and spelling.
- Resources will include Orton Gillingham methodology, Barton Reading System, Science of Reading methodology, F.A.S.T Learning Reading System
- Thematic Unit approach
- Multiple subjects are taught using one central topic.
- It allows teachers to incorporate and combine elements of English, math, history, the arts, and other subject – all while focusing on a particular topic.
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Students with learning disabilities/ADHD often struggle with social interactions and emotional regulation. Students will be lead through a program that will help students develop social-emotional skills.
- Resources: Merrell’s Strong Kids: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
- Delivered by specialized professional
- The Learning Disabilities Association has the benefit of having many specialized and experienced staff to help guide your child through this educational experience.
- Calendar and Timetable:
- Our 2023-2024 program will start Tuesday, September 5th and runs to June 27th.
- We will also have the following days off:
- February/Winter Break
- Easter Break
- Christmas Break
- Statutory holidays
- One PD Day per month
- Monday to Friday
- Drop off between: 8:00-9:00 am
- School Day 9:00 am -3:20 pm
- Pick up between 3:20 pm – 4:30 pm
- Tuition
- $8,500 per year for full-time
- Families will be invoiced $850 per month for the 10-month school year
- $5,000 per year for part-time
- Families will be invoiced $500 per month for the 10-month school year
- Part time programs can be half day or full days every other
- What does this mean for your child?
- Your child will be registered under Home Based Education, and we will need to follow the home-based education procedures.
- A Notice of Intent must be filled out by parent/guardian.
- The team at LDAS will create an education plan, as well as provide periodic logs, summative records and/or work samples to the Home-Based Education department.
- Parents/guardians can apply for an annual reimbursement of $1,000 per child for each student registered in a home-based education program..
This program is only offered at our Saskatoon office. To obtain more information, please contact them at (306) 652-4114 Ext 0.