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Academic Intervention Clinic

tutoring at UW-Eau Claire

Sponsored by the Human Development Center

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

 
The Academic Intervention Clinic (AIC) is a program that provides services for children who are experiencing academic difficulties. The clinic offers services to help improve a child's acadmic performance by identifying and implementing effective interventions. The AIC is currently partnering with two local schools to provide these services through each school's afterschool program.
 
The AIC uses state of the art intervention technology to design, implement, and measure student progress in reading, mathematics, and written language. Interventions are implemented by specially trained undergraduate students working under the direct supervision of UWEC faculty and graduate assistants.

 

Clinic Staff

 
Dr. Michael I. Axelrod
Clinic Director
 
Dr. Melissa Coolong-Chaffin
Associate Clinic Director
 
Graduate Student Co-Coordinators
Karissa Danes
Kimberly Maczko
Kaitlin O'Shea

 

Resources for Professionals

The AIC is currently employing an intervention model that works to empirically-select evidence-based academic interventions for students struggling with reading and mathematics. Called Experimental Analysis, this model uses experimental procedures to test evidence-based interventions against one another in an effort to identify the most effective strategy for individual students. Below are several resources professionals might find helpful when considering implementing a similar program.

 

Using Performance Feedback to Increase Reading Comprehension Strategies (NASP 2013 Convention Presentation)

BEAs and ELLs: Empirical Data and Teacher Perceptions (NASP 2013 Convention Presentation)

Minnesota School Psychologists Association Winter 2013 Conference

Wisconsin School Psychologists Association Fall 2012 Presentation (Powerpoint format)

Wisconsin School Psychologists Association Fall 2012 Presentation (PDF format)

Brief Experimental Analysis Oral Reading Fluency Intervention Protocol Checklists

Other Research on Academic Interventions

 

The Effectiveness of an Intervention Package of Repeated Reading and Error Word Drill Using iPad Technology (Poster presented by Kaitlin O'Shea at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, February 2013)

Adding Student Choice to a Repeated Reading Intervention (Poster presented by Karissa E. Danes at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, February 2013)

 

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