Intervening in the life of a struggling learner early can mean the difference between patterns of failure and success throughout their school years and into adulthood and career.
SEARCH & TEACH®
SEARCH & TEACH® is an early intervention program developed to meet the educational needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure. This differs from Educational Therapy, which was designed to help students who have documented learning disabilities, and in many cases have already experienced frustration and failure in the regular classroom.
SEARCH is the scanning component of the program.
TEACH is the instructional component of the program, provided during a minimum of three 30-minute sessions per week.
SEARCH is a 20-minute individual test designed to identify five and six-year olds who are vulnerable to learning difficulty, and to provide profiles of individual strengths and weaknesses in the readiness skills necessary for reading success. SEARCH consists of three tests of visual perception, two auditory tests, two tests of intermodal skills, and three neurodevelopmental tests.
TEACH is a program of 55 learning activities called “tasks,” carefully designed to address the needs revealed by SEARCH. Remedial tasks are ordered from simple to complex, and organized into visual, visual-motor, auditory, body-image, and intermodal skill clusters which correspond to the elements of the SEARCH test.
SEARCH & TEACH® was developed by Archie Silver, M.D. (child psychiatrist), Rosa A. Hagin, Ph.D. (psychologist) and the staff of the Learning Disorders Unit at New York University School of Medicine and is based on extensive interdisciplinary research on the diagnosis and treatment of learning disorders. It has been implemented in a large variety of school settings throughout the United States. This exceptional program was unanimously approved by the Joint Dissemination and Review Panel of the U.S. Office of Education for its educational impact, cost-effectiveness, and replicability.
SEARCH & TEACH® is cited since 1980 in the U.S.O.E. publication, “Educational Programs That Work.”
“The strength of SEARCH & TEACH® is in early intervention. This two-fold approach offers educators an efficient and effective tool for catching learning deficits at the beginning of a child’s academic career before the downward spiral of failure begins. With proper and timely identification and intervention, many children can be spared the life-long consequences of learning disorders.”
—Rosa A. Hagin, Ph.D., Research Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine
The fee for a SEARCH scan is $85. This fee covers testing, evaluation of the test, and formulation of a TEACH plan, if necessary.
If the SEARCH scan indicates the necessity of TEACH intervention, families have four TEACH plans available:
- Two 45-minutes sessions per week: $45 per session
- Three 45-minute sessions per week: $45 per session
- Three 30-minute sessions per week: $30 per session
- Five 30-minute sessions per week: $30 per session