How can an autism and special ed tutor benefit your child?

Children on the autism spectrum don’t necessarily lack the ability to learn. They simply learn differently. By partnering your child with a trained special education tutor, you are giving them the chance to explore lesson plans that are directly correlated to how they learn.

According to esteemed autism activist and professor, Dr. Temple Grandin, autistic children are known to absorb information in the following ways: visually, in patterns, or verbally. Maybe your child embodies one of the above, some, all, or none. There is simply no way of knowing what learning system your child will benefit from without a personalized assessment and plan. And that’s what our special education tutors do best!

By putting children with special needs in a private tutoring session, they can soon release any previous inhibitions of social anxiety, sensory overload, and pacing difficulties. When working with a professional autism tutor, these children will be given customized resources to make positive strides in their socialization skills, arithmetic competency, linguistic applications, and creative output.

What can you expect in a special ed tutoring session?

When you connect with one of our private special needs tutors in Victoria or Comox, your child will be thrust into center stage. Teachers and teaching assistants have many children to juggle at once, but all of our tutor’s focus will be on your child’s own learning abilities and challenges.

Since 2002, we’ve worked with some of the best autism tutors on Vancouver Island. They are professionally trained to be an active influence on your child. As in: intently monitoring them and constructively guiding them. This includes practicing the following teaching methods:

• Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA): Done by monitoring a child and through observation, working to increase their useful learning behaviours. Conversely, lowering behaviours that cause interference to ability to learn.
• Sensory Integrative Therapy: This helps children who are easily overstimulated. It utilizes repetitive exercises to help them accurately experience sensation instead of being overwhelmed by it.
• Relationship Development Intervention (RDI): Encourages your child to think ‘flexibly’ through improving their coping mechanisms. It also provides tools for a child to react positively to their surroundings, whether it be physically or verbally.
• Dr. Temple Grandin’s teaching tips: As being on the autism spectrum herself, Dr. Grandin provides insight into how to approach autism in general, and how it isn’t limiting, but rather a special gift to be explored. Being firm advocates in this teaching theory, we’ve also written about Temple’s ideas on our blog, and how she encourages turning so-called ‘weaknesses’ into learning strengths.

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Help your special needs child make positive strides with the help of a special education tutor

Autism presents itself differently in each child. It’s not an overtly symptomatic condition that can be squarely managed and handled. It is a fluid, ebb and flow process that requires us as educators to practice adaptability and ingenuity– something you as parents are admirably embodying on a daily basis! Our tutors in Victoria, Comox, Courtenay, Nanaimo and other cities on the Island are able to work with you, and with your school teacher, to ensure your child is getting the best care possible. We take into account the demands of B.C.’s education requirements, while also understanding a child’s own limitations.

Rest assured, our special ed tutors are actively engaging in the latest research about learning methods for autism and special education. Whether the hurdles your child faces are big or small, you can trust that an experienced tutor will help them make better sense of the everyday challenges they are facing. If they need space, we get it. If they need to fiddle, it’s ok. It might just be the way they concentrate, and a special needs tutor should know that.