Offer services from Grade R to 12
Gr R – 12: on referral basis
- ASSESSMENT Evaluation and identification of learning difficulties
- School readiness
- Assessment of learning potential and barriers to learning
- Grade 9 subject choice assessment and guidance
- Grade 11 career choice assessment and guidance
- Assessment for accommodations for formal assessments
- Provide training on various topics for educators and parents where needed.
- STUDY SKILLS
- Study skills training for grade 4 learners
- Learning styles assessments
- Parent training of study skills techniques
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING
- Short-term psychotherapy (individual and group) as needed (grade R – 12) to
address a wide range of emotional and social issues - Assessment of social and emotional functioning
- Parent support and guidance
- Crisis management
- Liaise between various professionals and transdisciplinary team regarding
referrals, reports and feedback. - Teacher development and support
SOCIAL WORKER
- Helping learners develop appropriate social interaction skills.
- Working with parents to facilitate their support in their children’s school
adjustment.
Alleviating family stress to enable the child / learner to function more effectively in
school and community. - Assisting parents to access programs available to them (school and community
resources). - Providing direct support to parents
WHAT ARE WE ABOUT?
The main aim of the Remedial Department is to bridge the gap between where our
learners currently function academically and where they need to function academically.
The role of the Remedial therapist is to assist learners to overcome or better cope with
their learning disability. It focuses on skill rather than content.
Therapy focuses on various aspects of learning depending on the grade level and needs
of the learners. The skills we mainly focus on are: phonics (sound recognition, blending,
segmenting and phoneme manipulation), listening skills, comprehension skills, language
skills, building vocabulary, study skills and maths.
HOW WE DO THINGS AT DELTA PARK SCHOOL
- We do therapy with both foundation phase and intermediate phase
- Learners are assessed annually and a profile for each learner is compiled to monitor progress
- Assessment focuses on Reading, Spelling, Writing and Comprehension
- Because we focus on skill rather than content, we incorporate games, books and many fun activities into therapy to make it as interactive as possible
- Learners in the foundation phase are seen in groups of 3-4 learners, twice a week
- Learners in the intermediate phase are seen in groups of 4-5 learners once week
- Unfortunately we do not do therapy with High School learners but we do have an annual study skills workshop for them
- We do individual therapy on a referral basis for those learners who need a little extra help
- Maths and Afrikaans individual therapy is also done on a referral basis
- We provide exam assistance for learners who qualify for accommodations
- Most Remedial therapists are trained in the Read For Africa Phono-Graphix
programme and Rave-O
