Language Learning Lab

Language Learning Lab
The Language Learning Lab is an added-fee program offered for select students identified to potentially benefit from such intensive intervention. Students work with a Certified Academic Language Therapist individually or in small groups several times per week to develop their emerging language-based literacy and writing skills. The therapist utilizes the MSLE (Multisensory Structured Language Education) approach in working with students towards helping them develop and master the following skills, among others:

• Alphabet sequencing

• Letter recognition

• Phonological awareness • Phonemic awareness

• Sound-syllable associations

• Syllable instruction

• Semantics, syntax, and morphology

• Spelling in isolation and in context

• Handwriting

The therapist conducts informal assessments, tracks progress, and communicates collaboratively with students’ teachers and parents in order to help provide a true team approach towards supporting these students and their academic progress. Referrals for potential participation in the Language Learning Lab can be generated by the collaboration of a student’s parent(s) and teacher(s) and ultimately involve the discretion of the Language Learning Lab therapist and/or the Director of Student Support.