Search and Teach
At A.I.M. Educational Therapy we recognize recent and current research that indicates the value of a preventive approach when dealing with potential learning problems in the future.
Search & Teach is used to easily identify learners for weak perceptual areas and then provide a powerful individualized intervention program for young students in grades K-2.
At A.I.M. Educational Therapy we recognize recent and current research that indicates the value of a preventive approach when dealing with potential learning problems in the future.
Search & Teach is used to easily identify learners for weak perceptual areas and then provide a powerful individualized intervention program for young students in grades K-2.
Identification
Search is an individual test designed to identify 5 and 6 year-olds vulnerable to learning difficulties and provides profiles of individual strengths and weaknesses in the foundational systems necessary for reading success.
Intervention
Teach is a program of 55 learning tasks, carefully developed and tested during a four-year investigation of pre-reading skills to address the needs revealed by Search. It is an individualized program but does allow for some small group work of review activities with children of similar needs.
The tasks are grouped in five clusters which include: visual, visual-motor, auditory, body-image, and intermodal skills. This intervention can include groups of children or individual sessions meeting three to four times a week.
Search & Teach was developed by Archie A. Silver, M.D. (child psychiatrist) and Rosa A. Hagin, Ph.D. (psychologist) and the staff of the Learning Disorders Unit at New York University School of Medicine. It is based on extensive interdisciplinary research on the diagnosis and treatment of learning disorders and is now being implemented in diverse school settings throughout the U.S.
Read Dr. Hagin’s article and find out why Search and Teach is a powerful tool for identifying and preventing various learning challenges in young children.