Swift School Students

Swift School honors each child’s abilities and provides specific tools to help achieve goals in school and beyond. We help students identify their academic strengths and talents, and develop skills and strategies that address their learning challenges, so that each child can experience academic success.

Every child is uniquely gifted in his or her own wonderful ways. Parents who have concerns about their child’s academic progress before enrolling at Swift School may observe some of the following characteristics of a dyslexic student in their child:

 Bright, hard worker, but not excelling
 Knows something one day and not the next
 Reluctant to take risks
 Low self-esteem
 Struggling despite tutoring
 Weakness in basic reading skills
 Cannot follow directions
 Difficulty remembering things
 Talented in the arts and/or athletics
 Strong in rote math, yet struggles with word problems
 Struggles to retrieve words and pictures
 Struggles with multiple step processes
 Cannot develop sentences or paragraphs

All students at Swift School are required to submit a current psycho-educational report. Though it is hard to generalize the educational issues attributed to dyslexic children, students at Swift School typically have one or more of the following, as defined by Educational Psychologist:

• Discrepancy in IQ subtest scores (e.g., non-verbal abilities are higher than verbal abilities)
• Performance weaker than potential
• Weak components of reading (i.e., phonological processing, word attack, letter-word identification, blending, elision)
• Variable attention and/or concentration skills
• Auditory and/or language processing deficits
• Memory issues
• Expressive language weaknesses
• Oral reading performance issues (rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension)
• Perceptional reasoning issues
• Visual motor integration issues