ACCESS Academic Therapy, or specialized tutoring for children with learning disabilities, provides an individualized approach specific to each student's learning needs. Tutoring addresses reading, spelling, comprehension, written expression, study skills and organizational strategies. Because intensity of instruction is a critical factor when remediating a disability, it is recommended that students be tutored a minimum of three times a week. ACCESS tutoring focuses on remediating a student's deficit, not the completion of homework. While working to remediate a student deficit, ACCESS works with the student’s school to recommend appropriate modifications. ACCESS also evaluates tools or software that may help a student compensate for a specific weakness.

Tutoring vs. Academic Therapy
Tutoring is often designed to assist students with a specific subject area, develop study skills or complete homework. Academic Therapy is an intervention program designed for students who have a specific disability in the areas of reading, reading comprehension and/or written expression. Academic therapists are not only professionals working with children who learn differently, but are highly trained in specific approaches that are designed for children who have specific reading and writing disorders.

ACCESS academic therapists strive to provide a network of support for struggling students through:

• Intensive reading instruction using a nationally recognized multi-sensory phonics approach.
  
• Written expression instruction to target organization of thoughts and writing mechanics. 
• Instruction in study skills and organizational strategies.
• Interactive Metronome, an assessment and treatment tool used to improve the neurological processes of motor planning and sequencing.
• Educational technology training to assist students with the use of specific piece of equipment or software application.