Student Support Services

To promote the academic, social, emotional and physical development of all its students, CAISL provides a range of Learning Support services.

Students admitted to CAISL must be able to function within the regular classroom setting and be able to work towards successful completion of CAISL academic requirements through:

• Small Group Instruction
• Regular Monitoring of Progress
• Formal Accommodations
• Executive Functioning Skills
• Literacy Skills

CAISL provides Learning Support services for students who have been identified with mild learning difficulties and does not have the facilities or faculty required to educate children with severe learning or behavioral problems.

Learning Support tailors its services to the needs of the student, as determined by both external and in-house testing, teacher assessment, and, where necessary, the Individual Educational Plan.  Accommodations may be available to help students gain equal access to the curriculum. 

CAISL recognizes the vital input parents provide about their child's life outside of school and his/her interests, enthusiasms, and approach to learning.

Parents can help the CAISL faculty to support the child better by providing on-going information about the child and what the Parent is seeing at home, such as:

• Likes, dislikes, personality
• Interests, talents, abilities
• Family relationships and dynamics (including extended family and pets)
• Peer relationships and dynamics
• Family routines and schedules
• Physical and emotional history

Parents should also:

• speak with the child's teacher(s) about goals that have been set,
• collaborate  regarding progress and
• propose changes in goals, strategies and/or resources or support where they see a need.

Additionally, Parents whose children need an IEP, will participate in the Annual Review Meeting.

CAISL writes an Individualized Education Program (IEP) when the there is an educational-psychological test result (provided by the parents) which shows the student has a cognitive challenge.  The IEP set out the student’s academic goals for the year and is written by the CAISL Learning Support Faculty and reviewed annually with the parents.

An Accommodation Plan (AP) is written for those students who have challenges usually related to attention or to physical differences.  The AP does not alter the academic goals for the student but will set out possible changes to the ways in which those goals may be met.

CAISL charges no additional fees for Learning Support Services for mild levels of need.  Parents need to provide the educational-psychological testing required by the school.  Additionally, CAISL does not have on staff the services of Speech Therapy or Occupational Therapy and parents will need to provide these if there is need.  CAISL can assist a family is finding such support within the community.