Academic Support Services

Strategic Partnership Empowerments (SPE)

Now that you have spent all that money getting your child assessed and diagnosed, what do you do with all the reports and recommendations?

Are you having trouble trying to communicate your child’s learning and support needs to the school?
SPE takes the stress and frustration off you by helping you liaise with the school to advocate for your child’s needs to be supported.

Parents often engage these services for onboarding the school team for matters pertaining to daily classroom accomodations, school-based assessments and national examinations.

How I Can Help

Applications: Access Arrangements (AA)

Did you know that a child may need different AAs for different subjects? Sometimes, they need different AAs for the various papers of the same subject.
Other times, your child might need an additional AA which his older report did not capture. What do you do then?

I help take the confusion and anxiety out of the entire AA arrangement application process.

Not only will I help you review the clinical reports, I will also take into consideration information on his regular classroom and learning behaviours to design simulated test conditions to help you determine which AAs would be most helpful for your child.

Successful AA applications need to be detailed and supported by solid justification to explain why the candidate needs each provision to have a more equitable access to the assessments.

All individuals can learn and succeed with the right support and access opportunities provided.

Training: Access Arrangements (AA)

A tool in the hands of the clueless is no tool at all. Getting the access arrangements approved is just the first step toward achieving better outcomes in formal assessments and high-stake examinations. The candidate needs to receive explicit skills training on how and when to utilise each and every AA in the respective subjects. I have road-tested methods to equip even students with multiple disabilities with competence and confidence in the utilisation of AAs.

Supplementary Education Support Help (SESH)

Just like how a Special Educational Needs Officer (SENO) helps to liaise with various subjects teachers and synergise the support given to your child in school, I will help you manage support and intervention efforts with your child’s various outside school support professionals like tutors and therapists. Not all tutors may not be trained in SEN and I can help you equip them quickly with the necessary practical strategies to maximise their tutoring effectiveness.

Mother Tongue Struggles & Exemptions (MTE)

Learning a second language is a valuable skill and MTEs should not be used as a ticket for gaming the system. However, there are students who can really benefit from being granted MTE. Yet, some of these students are unable to obtain these. If your child is amongst this struggling minority, I will help you review and rethink your approach to managing MT.

Appeal Letters

Letter writing services to help you advocate for a variety of support access and services that your neurodivergent child might need from educational institutions.

Thank you,Sarah, for helping our son get the AA and classroom accommodations he needed! His grades improved significantly after you helped us convince the school of his needs.

In a single term, his English grades jumped almost 20 marks – from 45 to 63! From U grade to a Grade 4!

This was also a huge confidence booster.  
He has gone on to top his Sec 1 NT class, and has also successfully achieved a lateral transfer into Normal (Academic) stream.
Mrs Georgina AngParent of Client in the SESH, PSLE English Preparation & AA Training Programmes
Sarah is always advocating that students should not be penalised for being different. She gives parents like me sound advice and provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to more effectively navigate the school system as a parent.  Sarah provided invaluable help in securing the AAs for PSLE that  my child needed even when the teachers were trying to dissuade me from applying.
Ms. Julia LohParent of Client in PSLE English Prep, AA Application and Training, SESH
Teacher Sarah has many methods for helping students like me learn different important skills. I found her methods helpful for my English learning. I also learned   effective exam skills like time and mindset management from her. She taught me how to use special exercises like affirmations, visualisations and PQ reps to keep my mind in a positive headspace when doing my least favourite exam components or difficult questions.  

She really believes that students perform better when they are taught how to grow positive mindsets! Teacher Sarah always believes I can do something and do it well even when I don’t think I can.  
LynGraduate of PSLE English Prep and AA Training, Gifted with ASD and Dyslexia