Bridges Learning Academy

Some children are unable to translate what they read or think into writing as they lack fine motor skills. Our Bridges Learning Academy is for those children who have specific learning disabilities. These include dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and other related difficulties. When children find the very process of reading, writing or math a big challenge, their school life becomes a nightmare. This division of V-Excel gives them the necessary skills to face school life. Using structured methods of teaching, spelling strategies, decoding and encoding of language, these children are helped to perform better. It also helps slow learners.

The objectives of BLA are:

to change the struggling child's academic life to ensure easier learning, and
to improve the overall progress in a child's life.

Our Staff at BLA

Mrs. Gita Bhalla
Ms. Janaki Ashok
Ms. Neha Bhalla
Ms. Sowmya Sarathy
Ms. Uma Harini

How does my child benefit from being a part of Bridges Learning Academy?
At BLA, we organize the following for the learning disabled child:

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
additional time to answer exams
marks not deducted for spelling errors so long as the content is clear
may be given a calculator (dyscalculia), or a writer/scribe (dysgraphia)
exemptions from second language and/or options to exempt from science and math

Our special education programs have been developed to protect, nurture, and teach children in whom the presence of a disability beyond their control.

Why aren't regular schools effective for these children?
In regular schools it is difficult to make a qualitative distinction between the developmentally challenged and the non-challenged. Successfully integrating such pupils requires many changes within and outside the school, besides curriculum changes - something that is practically not feasible.

What happens if they are not taught differently?
For millions of adults, the struggle continues way beyond childhood because they never mastered strategies to help them overcome reading, writing, math problems.

At Bridges Learning Academy we ensure that children who have to be pulled out from their regular schools owing to their specific training needs are:

given individualized attention,
mainstreamed at the earliest possible instance, and
suitably prepared for competing on an equal footing with the other children.

Is there really hope for such children?
Yes. There is immense hope and we have numerous encouraging examples. To cite a few examples, artists like Michelangelo and Rodin, scientists like Einstein and Edison, great orators like President Roosevelt and General Patton, all had learning disabilities, but yet emerged successful in life.