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What is the Learning Centre? The London Scottish Rite Learning Centre is a place where children are important! It was planned and established by a group of Freemasons (a centuries-old men's fraternal organization) who understood two important facts about how children learn:
What is Dyslexia? The inablity to read may be the result of dyslexia. The International Dyslexia Association defines it this way: "Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and / or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge." How Does The Centre Work? The children attend twice a week for one hour, and meet with their screened and trained tutor who uses the well proven Orton-Gillingham Approach Methodology in a one-to-one setting. The tutoring is provided at no cost to the child or family. The lessons are divided into five levels and most children take up to three years to complete the program. A Learning Centre "year" is approximately 30 weeks, and the two one hour sessions per week are all after regular school hours, usually at 4p.m. and at 5p.m., Monday through Thursday. What Does the Polar Bear Mean?
What Else Can You Tell Me? Please have a look around this website. Follow some of the links, and if you have questions, please contact us! We would like to answer your questions.
FREEMASONS HELPING CHILDREN
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That means that children
who reach grade four without learning to read, are in trouble!
That should not happen to any child. At the Learning Centre, we want
them to learn to read, and to enjoy reading and begin reading to
learn. The Learning Centre accepts children formally identified with
dyslexia and tutors them individually with a time-tested and proven
method that accommodates their specific learning differences.
In the United States,
where Scottish Rite Masonic bodies have successfully operated such
Learning Centres for several years, their symbol is a teddy bear.
Being Canadian, home of the north, we selected the polar bear, as shown above. Between his paws, our Polar Bear holds the
logo of the 
