Learning Services
Wasatch Academy is committed to enhancing and supporting each student’s unique learning style. Students with identified learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and anxiety, as well as twice-exceptional students, develop tools to realize their potential.
Our mission is to help students develop skills in preparation for college and life.
» To support student learning, where accommodations are needed, we develop comprehensive individualized in-class learning strategies through a highly differentiated curriculum. Students remain integrated with their peers in all classes, a fully inclusive model.
» In our Learning Center - a vibrant, nurturing, and inclusive hub on campus, students alongside a learning coach, work to develop crucial skills for effective learning, efficient living, and fulfilling social connections. Tailored to developing minds facing challenges with organization, time management, planning/prioritizing, cognitive and emotional flexibility, responsible decision-making, and impulse control, among other social-emotional and executive function skills, in preparation for their successful transition to young adulthood.
Individual Instruction
See more about the Learning Services course in which students work one-on-one with a Learning Coach to receive personalized instruction.
Learning Differences Services
Students with learning differences may need additional support to develop the study skills and habits necessary to achieve the most favorable academic outcomes.
Learning Services offers assistance in one-to-one coaching to support the development of executive function skills such as cognitive flexibility, goal setting, organizing materials and ideas, prioritizing, self-monitoring, and self-checking with specialized support for students with identified learning differences – dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and processing deficits.
About 30% of our students are enrolled in the Learning Services program. These students meet one-to-one with their learning coach during a regularly scheduled class period. The coach offers assistance developing skills, strategies, and independence to reach new heights and succeed in future endeavors.
