Elementary Summer Program Summer Program July 7-25, 2025

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Herndon, VA

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St. Andrew the Apostle School, Silver Spring MD

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ASDEC Elementary Academic Therapy Clinic – Grades 2-6: 

ASDEC provides the only Orton-Gillingham Based program endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association in the Washington, DC region. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and handwriting. Physical movement is added to the visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day.

Who should attend?

Students entering grades 2-6 who currently are struggling in school and require special accommodations as specified in an IEP or some other educational plan.

What will they learn? Students work one-to-one with an academic therapist in the following:

Multisensory Language Training
ASDEC’s Sounds In Syllables teaches phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and comprehension procedures that focus attention, improve memory, and reduce anxiety.

Verbal Expression
Through interactive activities and games, students improve language skills through sentence expansion, categorizing and sequencing activities, and deductive reasoning methods.

Summer program team

ASDEC Clinical Directors lead the summer program team. Summer Program Director Traude Smith, CALT has a masters degree in education and has been teaching students with learning differences since 1985. Serving alongside as a clinical supervisor is Mona Iyer, CALT a Certified Montessori Teacher with over 23 years experience as a Montessori teacher and over 8 years as a Certified Academic Therapist.

Donna Brooks, CALT, Donna L. Brooks is an ALTA-certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) and IDA certified Dyslexia Therapist and ASDEC Supervisor.  She is the founder of Moving Muscles. This program is specifically used for the ASDEC Summer Program and allows children the ability to become better coordinated, working on total body motion while addressing mid-line, hypotonia, dyspraxia challenges. Most importantly, the children have fun while doing this. Donna is also the founder of Blessings Through Dyslexia, an intervention services provider. She is also certified as a Myers-Briggs Facilitator, an Equipping Minds (EM) Mediator, a Feuerstein Method Mediator, and The Listening Program (TLP) Provider, Visual and Auditory Assessor through The Listening Program, and an Intern for the Learning Ears Program. Donna is currently enrolled in a Masters of Counseling Program at Huntington University, Huntington, Indiana. She is retired from the United States Air Force. Donna and her daughter, Grace, understand the challenges and blessings that come with having dyslexia.

In addition to our Program Directors, Academic Therapists will work one-on-one and in small groups with students. Therapists meet each day with the Program Director to review the child’s progress and plan the next session. 

Cost

Onsite Programs 

$1,900 for three-week program  plus $100 non-refundable deposit.

Online Program

$1,520 for three week program plus $100 non-refundable deposit

Step 1:  Complete online pre-registration along with payment of non-refundable deposit

Step 2; Send student's educational testing to [email protected]

Step 3: After staff review testing, student will be invited to meet with summer program director for intake and placement.

Summer Math Program

July 7-25, 2025

Grades 4-5: 8:30-9:30

Grades 6-7:  from 10:00-11:30  

Grades 8-9 from 12:00-1:30 

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Foundation Skills Program – Designed for Rising 4th & 5th Grade Students

The Foundation Skills Review is appropriate for rising 4^th and 5^th grade students who have language-based and/or related disabilities and who have significant gaps in their skills and conceptual foundations. We will cover basic numeracy patterns along with place value concepts, addition & subtraction, and multiplication & division concepts, as well as basic fraction concepts. This program is not designed to drill math facts but to provide the reasoning and patterns behind them.  Students will interact with math concepts through hands-on practice with manipulative objects, visual representations and games to reinforce skills.  Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed.  Students must be able to function in a group as well as independently with instructor support.  

Getting Ready for Middle School –  Rising 5  (depending on pre-assessment) and 6th Grade Students

This summer review program is appropriate for students who have language based and/or related disabilities who have significant gaps in their skills and conceptual foundations. We will cover basic numeracy and place value concepts with a focus on fractions as they relate to whole numbers. We will explore the concepts surrounding multiplication and division but we will not drill math facts for rote memory.  Rather we will explore patterns which aid reasoning and memory to addres these deficits common to students with language-based disabilities.  We will stress the long division algorithm, and multidigit arithmetic which form the core of middle school math.  Our final week will be devoted to fraction and decimal concepts. Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed.  Students must be able to function in a group as well as independently with instructor support. 

Algebra Prep- Designed for Students in Grades 7 and Up

This summer program will focus on skills necessary for performance in pre-algebra and algebra.  We will explore numeracy and place value along with fractions and decimals to see relationships in operations. Students will review solving one and two stage equations, integers, radicals and linear functions. They will build models for linear relationships and learn the foundations of slope intercept form along with graphing lines to model real life applications.  Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed.  They must be able to function in a group setting and independently with instructor support.  

Location: St. Andrew the Apostle School Silver Spring

Costs: 

 $1500 for the three week program plus a non-refundable application fee.

Step 1:  Complete online pre-registration

Step 2: Send student's educational testing to [email protected]-Testing is Required

Step 3: After staff review testing, staff will contact parent/guardian 

 

Middle-High School Program July 7-18, 2025

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Middle-High School Program: Study Skills and Writing – Grades 7-11 

Middle and high school students must complete increasingly challenging writing assignments across the curriculum. Most students, however, have not mastered the grammar and language skills necessary to become effective and confident writers. ASDEC’s middle/high school specialists use state-of-the art multisensory strategies to help students improve reading, grammar, writing, and study skills in a lively small group setting. The program provides students with some of the most critical and necessary skills required for academic writing at the secondary level.  Students will learn the multisensory process approach to improve sentences, paragraphs, and multi-paragraph essays.

Study skills instruction is embedded within the academic writing curriculum and will focus on time management, organization, vocabulary development, text annotation, webbing, summarizing, and source citation.  Students will learn techniques that significantly improve comprehension and memory. Additionally, they will use software tools that aid in mastery of content information and organization.

Who should Attend?

Students entering grades 7-11 in the Fall  of 2025  who currently are struggling in school .

What will they learn?

Pre-tests and post-tests administered in past summer programs reveal significant gains for participants in grammar and writing. Parents also report that their children demonstrate improved ability to complete short and long-term projects independently and on time.

Location: St. Andrew the Apostle, Silver Spring, MD

Summer program team

Laurie Moloney, CALT is the lead instructor.  With 20 years of experience as an Academic Language Therapist, Ms. Moloney specializes in teaching students to read and spell fluently; take notes from textbooks, literature, and lecture; remember what they read and hear using powerful memory strategies; enlarge their vocabulary exponentially through the study of Greek and Latin morphemes; write well; manage their time and school materials effectively; and self-advocate. 

Cost

 $1,200 plus a non-refundable $100 application fee.

Step 1:  Complete online pre-registration along with payment of non-refundable deposit

Step 2; Send student's educational testing to [email protected]

Step 3: After staff review testing, student will be invited to meet with summer program director for intake and placement.

Summer Math:  Contact us for referrals to online math specialists