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To determine how we can best help your child,
our business administrator or principal meets
with you to share information about our services
and your child’s needs. If you both determine
that our services may be appropriate for your
child, the business administrator will arrange
a time for you to meet with an admissions staff
member and for your child to visit our school
and receive an educational evaluation.
The educational evaluation involves assessing
your child’s skill in some or all of these areas,
depending on what is needed:
Language
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sound awareness
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rapid naming
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auditory memory
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vocabulary
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grammar skill and sense of word order
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phrasing
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listening comprehension
Reading
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phonics
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sight word recognition
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reading with fluency and speed
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comprehension
Spelling
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spelling sight and phonetic words in isolation
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spelling words in sentences
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spelling during daily written work
Writing
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handwriting neatness and speed
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mechanical correctness
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syntax (phrasing)
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thought organization
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fluency
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topic development and clarity of expression
Mathematics
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math concepts
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math facts
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computations
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word problems and math reasoning
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fluency and accuracy
Organizational, Study & Time Management
Skills
- organization of school materials
- management of homework and study time
- reading fluency and comprehension
- note-taking
- regular review of material
- use of strategies most effective for different
assignments
- work efficiency
If you’re completing the process of enrolling
your child in our school, the admission staff
member will also meet with you to examine all
possible factors, or barriers, that may impede
your child’s ability to learn. Common barriers
to learning are: attentional, emotional and behavioral,
physical and/or learning barriers.
The admissions staff member and you then use the
results of this informal assessment and the results
of the educational and psychological assessment
to determine the degree to which certain barriers
are adversely affecting your child’s academic
growth.
Once you both get a sense of the barriers your
child is experiencing and the degree to which
they impact your child’s daily life, the admissions
staff member will develop an instructional program
that reflects the most effective way to accommodate,
compensate for and/or remediate specific barriers.
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Accommodation involves
changing certain environmental conditions
so your child learns well despite his or
her barriers. Accommodations do not directly
target the barriers; however, they help
your child by-pass them. Accommodations
include small class size, one-to-one instruction,
medication, untimed tests, audio books,
modified schedules and specific classroom
designs.
Compensation is similar to accommodation
in that it minimizes the impairing effects
of learning barriers so your child functions
relatively well despite them. It is different
from accommodation in that the strategies
involved are generated from within the child.
Compensation strategies include becoming
aware of one’s learning patterns, assessing
one’s performance daily, keeping physically
fit, practicing effective study skills and
using relaxation techniques when needed.
Remediation is targeting the barrier
directly through intensive instruction.
At Manus Academy, we usually deliver remediation
in one-to-one settings. During remedial
instruction, the teacher heavily shapes
and monitors the student’s responses and
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After the evaluation, the admissions staff member
meets with you to discuss the results and the
recommended instructional program.
If your child attends our after-school tutorial
program, we may also communicate with your child’s
teachers to coordinate your and our efforts to
help your child with the teachers’. For qualified
students in need of specific school services or
accommodations, Manus Academy can help the parents
and school staff develop and monitor a 504 Accommodation
Plan or an Individual Educational Plan (IEP).
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6203 Carmel Road
Charlotte, NC 28226
Phone: 704-542-6471
Fax: 704-541-2858 |
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School:
9:00a.m. to 2:00p.m.,
Mon.-Fri.
Tutoring:
2:00p.m. to 7:00p.m.,
Mon.-Thurs.
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