Lab Services

Dyslexia Screening 

The  Department of Special Education offers dyslexia screenings for students enrolled in our diocesan schools. The cost of the screening is $250. Please download the form and return it to our office for testing. 

Lab Services Applications 

Dyslexia and Instructional Support Services are small groups of 3-4 students for approximently 120 minutes a week at the following schools.

Most Blessed Sacrament
Our Lady of Mercy
St. Aloysius
St. George School
St. John Interparochial School
Sacred Heart of Jesus School
St. Elizabeth School 
St. Peter Chanel School

The lab program aims to support students with a diagnosis of dyslexia and students who are in need of Instructional Support Services (ISS.) typical of those who would receive 504 accommodations in the public setting.
 
Lab services are designed to meet students where they are by first identifying deficits through diagnostic assessment (ex. Lexia, Orton-Gillingham, Activate) and then by using strategies appropriate to the students as individuals (to include learning style) rather than a program that we “plug” students into.  Learning styles are considered, but the services are generally multi-sensory as part of a best-practice model in addition to having qualified and caring staff and on-going collaboration with classroom teachers.
 
Initial and periodic goal meetings are conducted where assessment data is interpreted and progress data is reviewed.