ASDEC Summer Program
For Students in Elementary to High School
ASDEC Reach for Success Summer Programs in Reading, Math, Writing and Study Skills​
ASDEC provides the only summer program in the DC region that is lead by Certified Academic Language Therapists teaching struggling learners. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, study skills, and handwriting and math. Physical movement along with visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day.
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For close to two decades, ASDEC master teachers have been delivering the most powerful Orton-Gillingham teaching methods to students during our summer program. Our elementary students work with Academic Therapists one to one and in small groups while older students work in small groups with senior ASDEC faculty members. In addition, ASDEC-trained Math Specialists bring years of experience to our summer programs.
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ASDEC has over 20 years of experience serving children directly during the summer programs bringing the best components of our research-based training into the classroom.. We also have years of experience teaching students online, now an essential component during this pandemic. The Summer Program is for students who currently are struggling in school and require special accommodations as specified in an IEP or some other educational testing.
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Summer Math Program​
Elementary-Middle School Program
Grades 4-5, 5-6, & 7-up
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Summer Study Skills and Writing
High School Program
Grades 7-11
Elementary Academic Therapy Clinic
ASDEC Elementary Summer Program Summer Program
Grades 2-6: July 7-25, 2025
ASDEC provides the only Orton-Gillingham Based program endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association in the Washington, DC region. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and handwriting. Physical movement is added to the visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day.​​
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Who Should Attend?
Students entering grades 2-6 who currently are struggling in school and require special accommodations as specified in an IEP or some other educational plan.
What students learn
Students work one-to-one with an academic therapist in the following:​
Multisensory Language Training
ASDEC’s Sounds In Syllables teaches phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and comprehension procedures that focus attention, improve memory, and reduce anxiety.
Verbal Expression
Through interactive activities and games, students improve language skills through sentence expansion, categorizing and sequencing activities, and deductive reasoning methods.
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​In addition to our Program Directors, Academic Therapists will work one-on-one and in small groups with students. Therapists meet each day with the Program Director to review the child’s progress and plan the next session.
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“I just wanted to send a quick note to update you on my son AJ. He loved the ASDEC summer reading course. On the last day, he quietly turned to his mom and asked, “Can I go to reading camp again next summer?” We think it really helped to feel normal, and to have a cohort."
- Parent of summer elementary student
Summer Math Program​
July 7-25, 2025​
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Foundation Skills Program
Designed for Rising 4th & 5th Grade Students
​8:30-9:30
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Getting Ready for Middle School
Rising 5 (depending on pre-assessment) and 6th Grade Students
10:00-11:30
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Algebra Prep
Designed for Students in Grades 7 and Up
12:00-1:30
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Contact us for referrals to online math specialists.
What students learn
Foundation Skills Program
Designed for Rising 4th & 5th Grade Students
The Foundation Skills Review is appropriate for rising 4th and 5th grade students who have language-based and/or related disabilities and who have significant gaps in their skills and conceptual foundations. We will cover basic numeracy patterns along with place value concepts, addition & subtraction, and multiplication & division concepts, as well as basic fraction concepts. This program is not designed to drill math facts but to provide the reasoning and patterns behind them. Students will interact with math concepts through hands-on practice with manipulative objects, visual representations and games to reinforce skills. Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed. Students must be able to function in a group as well as independently with instructor support.
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Getting Ready for Middle School
Rising 5 (depending on pre-assessment) and 6th Grade Students
This summer review program is appropriate for students who have language based and/or related disabilities who have significant gaps in their skills and conceptual foundations. We will cover basic numeracy and place value concepts with a focus on fractions as they relate to whole numbers. We will explore the concepts surrounding multiplication and division but we will not drill math facts for rote memory. Rather we will explore patterns which aid reasoning and memory to addres these deficits common to students with language-based disabilities. We will stress the long division algorithm, and multidigit arithmetic which form the core of middle school math. Our final week will be devoted to fraction and decimal concepts. Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed. Students must be able to function in a group as well as independently with instructor support.
Algebra Prep
Designed for Students in Grades 7 and Up
This summer program will focus on skills necessary for performance in pre-algebra and algebra. We will explore numeracy and place value along with fractions and decimals to see relationships in operations. Students will review solving one and two stage equations, integers, radicals and linear functions. They will build models for linear relationships and learn the foundations of slope intercept form along with graphing lines to model real life applications. Students must commit to attending all three weeks of the program and no exceptions will be allowed. They must be able to function in a group setting and independently with instructor support.
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“Reading felt like a locked door. And everybody else had a key to the door that just didn’t work for me. Thanks to the help of my tutors I’ve been able to make my own key. But don’t think that it didn’t take work. I put a lot of effort into this goal, and eventually I was able to learn to read, even if it was my own way. That unlocked a bigger world. I think everyone has different keys to different doors and struggles with different things, so don't give up when you run across a lock and the normal keys don't work.”
- ASDEC Student
Middle-High School Program: Study Skills and Writing – Grades 7-11
Middle and high school students must complete increasingly challenging writing assignments across the curriculum. Most students, however, have not mastered the grammar and language skills necessary to become effective and confident writers. ASDEC’s middle/high school specialists use state-of-the art multisensory strategies to help students improve reading, grammar, writing, and study skills in a lively small group setting. The program provides students with some of the most critical and necessary skills required for academic writing at the secondary level. Students will learn the multisensory process approach to improve sentences, paragraphs, and multi-paragraph essays.Study skills instruction is embedded within the academic writing curriculum and will focus on time management, organization, vocabulary development, text annotation, webbing, summarizing, and source citation. Students will learn techniques that significantly improve comprehension and memory. Additionally, they will use software tools that aid in mastery of content information and organization.
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Who should attend?
Students entering grades 7-11 in the Fall of 2025 who currently are struggling in school .
What students learn
Pre-tests and post-tests administered in past summer programs reveal significant gains for participants in grammar and writing. Parents also report that their children demonstrate improved ability to complete short and long-term projects independently and on time.