“Our main objective is to extend a child’s learning environment – from school to home to other settings where nurturing adults maintain a vested interest.”

LIONHEART PROGRAMS

Lionheart addresses the individual needs of each student. Although students work in small groups, material and the teaching approach matches their individual profile. Consequently, we use a variety of recognized and innovative strategies to help our students learn in meaningful, connected ways.

For academic learning to be successful, it must be:

• Meaningful

• Motivating

• Experience-based

• Sensory-based

• Stimulating

• Challenging

• Developmentally appropriate

Some of our strategies and curricula include (but are not limited to):

• Reading Curricula: Reading Mastery (SRA), Reading for Understanding (SRA), Explode the Code (EPS), and Great Leaps, Edmark, Orton Gillingham, Lindamood-Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V), Talkies, classic literature

• Math Curricula: Saxon Math, Right Start Math, Math-U-See

• Social Thinking: Michelle Garcia-Winner’s Social Thinking Curriculum, Carol Grey’s Social Stories

• Life Lab Science Curriculum

Therapeutic Interventions, Fine Arts, and Special Activities

• Speech therapy

• Floortime

• Occupational therapy

• Assistive technology

• Hippotherapy (therapeutic horseback riding)

• Pre-vocational and Vocational program in a sustainable organic garden

• Art

• Music Therapy

• Yoga

• P.E.

• Life-thinking