The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, August 15, 1975 - Page 7 J; j
Organizations and People
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TORONTO —
"It's a natural!" The enthusiasm exploding through the telephone wires emanated from Harold Nashman, director of Camp Wahanowin, when he first heard about the Toronto Learning Centre;'
Nashman had instantly recognized the potentiaJ. bliss for both parents and . children from a union that would satisfy two basic needs: having a happy isummer, and being ready for the coming academic year.
The idea became a reality last month, when 12 youngsters enrolled in the regular Lake Couchi-ching camping program, specializing in improving their learning skills.
"Camp is a learning experience." says Nashman. "A child who needs extra assistance with his school work should have the same opportunity to improve as he has with iwimming and o t her camping skills.
"The learning clinic fits in ideally with our August program, which offers a variety of specialized activity concentration, such as in tennis, riding and fine arts clinics."
Housed in one of the several surplus school portables purchased by the enterprising veteran director, the educational facility has a special appeal for children. It is at once a happy place, nestled among cooling trees, and chock-full of colorful new equipment with the magnetism of up-to-the-minute techno-log>'.
Theequipment includes talking pages, a math computer that tells you with a comic sign if your answer is right or wrong, and stories projected on a screen, line by line, at whatever pace you set.
There is a jargon to place these teaching machines into proper remedial and tutorial perspective
— and TLC's co-founder-director Martin Kravitz,. (his partner is Merle Langbord Leyine), is a master of that professional jargon.
Highly experienced in spedal education, Kravitz will be teaching at the camp clinic along with co-worker Jessica Coulson firim the Toronto Learning Centre on Lawrence Avenue. Two assistants will complete the staff, all with backgrounds in camping and education.
The "talking page" — actually a btightly illustrated book on a manually-operated table machine complete with earphones
— is programmed to teach listening skills and help the child conceptualize what he hears.
The controlled reader helps increase reading speed and comprehend sion. The language master reads magnetic tapes on cards which present phonic sounds and helps the child mimicvdrill, and reinforce the learning, information at both the visual and auditory levels.
The chance to learn in this exciting play world as an adjunct to a regular' camp program is unique. According to Merle Kravitz, the registrar at TLC,
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Teacher Jessica Coulson helps campers study with the aid of remedial teaching machines at summer canip. The teaching aids are part of a special program at Camp Wahanowin to help the students improve skills.
and Marty's wi f e, "though camps for children with learning disabilities do exist, no other camp to our knowledge offers the opportunity for emotionally healthy children to mix with their peers at the regular camping level, while still using the summer months for advancing their learning potential."
The cost for attending the clinic is S65 per week : beyond the regular camp fee for the August period. That sum is paid directly to TLC and is tax deductible if the learning clinic is recommended by a pediatrician.
Kravitz says that the highly personalized program requires materials so streamlined to the individual that TLC's costs run at $60-70 per child for four weeks of consumable materials.
"We don't skimp." says kravitz, who spent sieveral years associated with the University of Guelph's Centre for Educational Disabilities, in developing programed materials to assist language-handicapped children. Jessica's experience
at the Guelph Centre also adds to her warm, empa-thic approach to youngsters.
The learning lab occupies . two hours of a camper's day, five days a week. The hour of instruction is picked firom his program iii order to interfere least with the rest of the day, and-to coincide with his bunk-mates' going off to other speciality clinics at camp.
The hour for supervised study and homework assistance will fit in nicely with the all-camp rest period after lunch, when quiet reading and low-key activity are the rule for all.
The clinic has drawn two kinds of students — those with ph-going school difficulties, grateful to be able to continue remedial help without having to stay in the city; and those who were delighted, at both parent and child level, to be able to sharpen up troublesome areas of the previous school year to ensure starting the next year with a feeling of "I'm OK."
Other Wahanowin campers drifted into the
facility ahead of its opening to see what was going on — and stayed as long as possible. One
eager, learner of seven-fejplied to inquiries, "I like everything heire! It's fun and you can learn a lot."
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