Learning Differences Programme Grants (2007)

• The Hill Center, Inc.

  To train teachers in the Hill Center's Master/Mentor Program (based in Durham, North Carolina) to become experts in the Center's methodology and thereby assure outreach to a wider circle of children with learning differences who need support. In addition, to increase the Student Financial Aid Endowment, which provides permanent funds to help ensure that financially needy students who struggle with learning differences have the opportunity to access the Hill Center programme.

• Muhlenberg College

  To provide more support for students with learning differences attending Muhlenburg College in Pennsylvania by developing a wide variety of support systems, including learning specialists, content tutors, learning assistants in the classroom, workshop tutors and writing mentors. For students with specific learning differences requiring additional assistance, they also provide classroom accommodation, volunteer note-takers, special housing options and adapted assistive learning technology. (Over five years)

• Oak Hill School Foundation

  To support the development of Oak Hill School Foundation in Switzerland serving children with learning differences and which is modelled on the highly successful Hill Center in North Carolina, and to implement in Europe, the Schools Attuned teacher training programme created by All Kinds of Minds in the United States.

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