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Therapy
Services
Occupational
therapy
In occupational
therapy at Destinata School, we mainly treat learners with
somato-sensory delays (e.g. tactile, vestibular problems),
postural-motor delays (e.g. balance, coordination problems)
and visual perceptual delays (e.g. spatial relations, visual
memory)
Children receive
therapy in a group of 2
– 5 learners. Motor groups can be larger.
Depending on the
number therapists employed, learners from Gr.R – Gr.5 with
delays receive therapy.
Psychology
department
Counselors provide
counseling programs in the following domains:
academic, career and personal / social and life skills.
Group and individual counseling help learners to
resolve emotional, social or behavioral problems and help them
develop a clearer focus and sense of direction.
Interviews with parents are regarded as crucial
opportunities to find solutions to problems and enhance good
relationships between the school and the adult in the learners
life.
A clinical
psychologist visits the school regularly to do intensive
psychotherapy with selective learners.
Speech
therapy:
Areas of expertise include learning
disabilities, articulation/speech defects, auditory processing
disabilities, audiology, neurology, and aphasia, to name but a
few.
Speech therapy is provided for the Gr
O-5 and Special Needs learners (with specific auditory
processing and language delays) on a weekly basis during
school hours. Learners attend a minimum of three sessions per
week which consists of small groups, thereby ensuring
individual attention.
Hearing evaluations are done annually as
well as the follow-up on hearing aid apparatus.
Remedial
therapy:
Remedial therapy
consists of all actions that lend learning support to learners
in reading, spelling, writing and mathematics. This includes
the development of vocabulary, reading strategies, knowledge
of spelling rules, understanding of what is read as well as
writing skills.
Learners (Gr. 1-6)
receive remedial therapy in small groups (2-5 learners), 2
to 3 x/week, depending on the number of therapists employed.
Remedial teaching strategies are used in the normal academic
classes in all the grades as ongoing part of the learning
support strategy.
All learners’
(Gr.1-6) progress in spelling, reading and mathematics are
assessed on a yearly basis.
Amanuenses are made
available to all learners in need of support during tests and
exams.
Tape aid is also
available to learners who struggle with reading or just learn
better by listening than reading, for study purposes.
BENEFITS
OF AUXILLIARY SERVICES IN SCHOOL:
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