The Fishburne Learning Center at the Blue Ridge School has been serving students with learning disabilities and/or attention difficulties since 1994.
Approximately 50% of the School’s student body uses the services of the Learning Center on a regular basis—some drop in for help with a particular subject; some participate in the Center’s evening study hall; and approximately 90 students have the learning center as a regular part of their school schedule (set as an elective course of the same duration as any other course), working with a learning specialist four days per week.
For each student, the learning specialist prepares a file review to be shared with the teachers, noting the student’s educational background, his individual cognitive strengths and needs, how those needs might present in the classroom, and suggestions for addressing and accommodating those needs. In addition, the learning specialist and the student construct a “Strengths, Needs, and Goals” document that guides their work together for a given trimester. Classes include:
Learning Skills I
Learning Skills II
