The Discovery Program is designed to meet the specific needs of students in 1st through 12th grades who have been classified with a developmental delay or a specific learning disability. Rather than receiving tutoring or learning strategies to compensate for their areas of weakness, the Discovery Program provides intense language-based educational therapy that targets areas of weakness in memory, attention, auditory and visual processing, visual-motor skills, oral and written language, reading, spelling, and math. The educational therapy program is designed to improve academic performance and to enable students to become independent learners.
Receiving Educational Therapy
Students receiving educational therapy meet in a one-on-one setting for 80 minutes twice a week in addition to their regular classes. High school students receive ½ credit each year for their work in the program. Educational therapists work closely with classroom teachers to monitor student progress and to suggest accommodations that will enable the students to achieve greater levels of success in their classes. Parents and residence staff play a key role in the educational therapy process by providing encouragement for the students, monitoring progress, supervising homework, and meeting with the educational therapists on a regular basis.
Certification
All educational therapists are trained by the National Institute for Learning Development (NILD). BFA is a member school of NILD.
