Learning Support

Soundview designs instruction and curriculum to make it accessible for all students.

Soundview designs instruction and curriculum to make it accessible for a wide range of students. Some students benefit from further intervention in the form of a Student Support Plan and/or enrollment in our Skills Collaborative program. A Student Support Plan is individualized and intended to focus on supports that will make it possible for the student to achieve sustainable, ongoing success and well-being in the classroom. Such accommodations might include, among other things:

Such accommodations might include, among other things:

  • Preferential seating, extra time to complete assessments/assignments

  • Removing consideration for certain aspects of written work (for example, neatness, handwriting, or spelling) in grading

  • More explicit teacher guidance and coaching on processes, deadlines, and expectations

  • Consistent communication and collaboration with a private tutor or specialist

  • Waiver from language

  • Incentive charts

  • Emotion regulation coaching

  • Structured breaks

  • Scheduled check-ins

  • Social skills groups with our counselor

Accommodations that Soundview is unable to provide might include, among other things:

  • One-on-one, ongoing classroom instruction

  • Dictation services

  • Oral assessments

  • Use of an alternative or specially designed curriculum

Soundview implements individualized Student Support Plans for students with academic or medical concerns documented through formal assessment. Interim plans can be established for students who are in the evaluation process.

Skills Collaborative: Learning Differences and Neurodiversity

Skills Collaborative provides specific, individualized support to a small number of students with well-defined learning differences. Through this fee-based program, we can support students in meeting the standards of the International Baccalaureate.

"Every child deserves an education that is ethical, rigorous, and compassionate." Soundview School

As an inclusive school, we embrace diversity by creating conditions where all feel welcome, safe, empowered, supported, fairly treated, and affirmed. Because educating internationally-minded students is inherent to our mission, we seek to provide opportunities that broaden our understanding of the variety of different ways people live and experience the world.

Educators are understanding more and more about the needs of neurodiverse students, just as educators are understanding the gifts that neurodiverse students have to offer. The educational environment for neurodiverse students is changing rapidly to a strength-based approach, and Soundview is part of that change.

For more information regarding Soundview’s student support options, please contact Teresa Ledford, Director of Learning and Skills Collaborative Coordinator.

“When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It’s very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That’s the meaning of life, it’s that simple.” Dr. Temple Grandin

Accommodations that Soundview is unable to provide might include, among other things:

One-on-one ongoing classroom instruction

Dictation services

Oral assessments

Use of an alternative curriculum

Soundview implements individualized Student Support Plans for students with academic or medical concerns documented through formal assessment. Interim plans can be established for students who are in the evaluation process.