Discovery Center
- Provide individualized, quality intervention for students with learning challenges
- Enable students to successfully realize their God-given potential
Destiny Christian Academy is committed to providing at-cost support services to achieve equal access to the education experience. DCA believes that needed accommodations allow each student to flourish and grow and to ultimately become all that God created them to be.
Destiny Christian Academy provides support for students with identified academic needs with a (504) plan or Individualized Education Program (IEP), through the Discovery Center. Students are either supported with accommodations and/or intervention programs offered at Destiny Christian Academy. DCA has no obligation to accommodate student(s) with disabilities or individual educational plans.
Discovery Center, through its intervention programs, strives to provide students with the tools and skills needed to overcome individual learning challenges and to become both academically and socially successful. The costs of these educational services are not included in the standard tuition and prices vary depending on the program.
Destiny Christian Academy provides this opportunity as a means of aligning with its mission, vision and values and does not have the resources or legal obligations(s) to require that the needs of any given disability or special need is met. If services become to onerous on the institution, defined by DCA, services and accommodations provided may be terminated.
As a private school, DCA is not mandated by the state of California nor under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to adhere to the accommodations of student's IEP or 504 plans. As a ministry, DCA may not agree to assist any given students in its sole and absolute discretion.
Programs
Search and Teach is an evidenced-based early intervention, reading readiness program serving students from kindergarten through second grade. Students receive one-on-one instruction to strengthen perceptual areas to prevent the frustration of reading failure. It was cited by the US Office of Education for its educational impact.
NILD Educational Therapy: 2nd - 12th Grade
The National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) therapy program trains 3rd - 12th grade students with identified learning differences to be successful in a traditional academic setting and to develop their skills in self-advocacy. The program accomplishes this through 160 minutes of one-on-one therapy per week with a trained NILD Educational Specialist.
NILD is a supplementary program established over 40 years ago to help students with learning disabilities who have experienced frustration and /or failure in school. NILD therapy strengthens areas of weakness in perception, cognition, academics and emotions. Through this interactive educational therapy, students begin to understand how they think and through time become independent, successful, lifelong learners. NILD was cited by the International Dyslexia Association for meeting the IDA’s Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading. K-5 releases students from their classrooms for two 80 minute sessions weekly. 6-8 and high school students take NILD educational therapy as a scheduled class.
FIE (Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment): 2nd - 12th Grade
Feuerstein strengthens learning, problem solving, and motivation with exercises to boost knowledge, thinking, and creativity. Logical and perceptual sequencing, spatial and social skills all help students tackle learning challenges and boost performance.
Rx for Discovery Reading group program is a systematic and explicit intervention that focuses on the five essential components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension. It teaches students to effectively and fluently read and spell accurately while also building vocabulary and comprehension capabilities. Groups will be taught by a trained educational specialist typically consisting of 2-4 students.
Rx for Discovery Math group program is a dynamic intervention teaching foundational math concepts and strengthening thinking and problem solving skills. In this environment math anxiety is reduced and number sense, math fluency and math vocabulary will be increased. Students lacking a conceptual understanding of mathematics will benefit the most from this program. Groups will be taught by a trained educational specialist typically consisting of 2-4 students.