At Riverview Learning Center, students learn skills for success and confidence.

School can be a very frustrating place for a student with a learning difference. However, it is not because that child isn't bright. Very often, students with learning problems score well above average on tests that measure intellectual ability.

What then, is the problem?

For any number of reasons, some children simply have not yet acquired learning skills that seem to be second nature to others. The good news is that these skills can be taught and that it is entirely possible to change the course of a student's school career. At Riverview Learning Center, students gain these learning skills and develop the confidence to be willing, enthusiastic learners, who are able to live up to their full potential.

Students learn how to actually strengthen their area of weakness.

The Riverview Learning Center intervention, developed by the National Institute for Learning Development (NILD), centers on stimulating each student's area of weakness in perception, language and cognition. We also work with each student's problem-solving and organizational skills. This is not a tutoring program or one that teaches students how to "compensate" for their learning difficulty. Instead, we offer each child intensive educational therapy that uses specific techniques to strengthen the areas that are causing a problem for that individual child.

Students learn confidence through our customized individual therapy.

When Dr. Carole Adams founded StoneBridge School in 1981, she was committed to providing a strong educational program that treated each child as an individual and ministered to the whole Christian family. As a part of that vision, Martha Shirley joined her and established what is now the Riverview Learning Center, a department of StoneBridge School.

Riverview Learning Center provides individualized educational therapy for students with identified learning differences using the model developed by the National Institute for Learning Disabilities. We help students learn confidence by:

  • restoring deficits in perception, cognition and communication
  • providing challenges instead of methods of compensation
  • developing each student's independence in learning
  • providing one-on-one educational therapy

For more information about Riverview, please contact Betsy Dickson at 465-7397, ext. 127 or betsy.dickson@stonebridgeschool.com.