Our Programs
Programs Offered by Centre for Diverse Learners
Program Registration Update: We are excited to announce that registration for our 2024-2025 programs will open on August 5th for our members. General registration will become available on August 12th. We look forward to welcoming new and returning participants to our diverse and enriching programs!
We understand that your time is precious, and we’re committed to simplifying the registration journey for you. This innovative approach streamlines the process, making it more accessible and user-friendly.
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Individual Intensive Support
Our Intensive Individualized Program pairs your student with an experienced tutor. Our tutors are trained to understand and address both the learning and cognitive issues that can impact neurodiverse students. Tutoring is tailored to meet the unique needs of each Student. A strategic plan will be created based on our assessments, any documentation the parent provides, and input from both the parent and student.
Leaps in Literacy
Leaps in Literacy is a reading program designed to provide literacy intervention. It is an 8-week reading program for students and youth 6-12 years old who struggle with the attainment of early literacy skills (e.g., phonemic and phonological awareness, blending and segmenting, decoding and encoding). We provide small group literacy support based on the New Ontario Language Curriculum and OHRC Right to Read (Science of Reading).
Mastering Mathematics
The aim of this program is to support elementary and high school students by providing 8-weeks of small group multi-sensory remedial mathematics tutoring, twice per week. This program will focus on the fundamentals of Math (e.g., building understanding of core mathematical concepts with a focus on mastering skills in number sense, and numerical operations). The program’s goal is to help students build automaticity of core facts through understanding how numerical operations work so that the concepts can be applied at any level.
Social Skills
The aim of the program is to encourage friendship, positive social/emotional behaviours, active listening, effective communication, and understanding of social norms, among many other social skills. This program is to support students who would like to improve their ability to build connections with peers, may avoid social contact, behave immaturely, be shy or timid in groups, frequently fight with peers, or display a lack of self-esteem and self-confidence.
Building Safer Communities: Social Skills
This new program has been designed using a variety of evidence-based programs such as PEERs and Social Thinking. As a group of 6-10 youth, we will discuss these topics and practice the skills necessary through roleplay, group discussions and asynchronous tasks to form friendships, self-advocate, and learn how to navigate social interactions. Students will also have the option to join a weekly virtual drop-in session where we can have a casual conversation about the topic explored during the week.
Executive Functioning
Executive Functioning courses are designed to support middle school and high school students with suspected or diagnosed LDs by providing 8-weeks of learning strategies coaching that will help them learn the skills they need to independently complete homework assignments, larger projects, and/or study for tests. Our 8-week Executive Function program is run by a learning strategist in a small-group in-person setting. Students will have the opportunity to set goals for themselves and learn the skills they need to successfully complete school assignments and projects.
