Through SHINE Children and Youth Services donor-funded Actualizing Learning Potential Promoting Social skills Programme (ALPS) Elementary classes, a weekly language and literacy intervention support programme, Batrisya and Barniyah got the help they needed with schoolwork. 

SHINE’s Associate Psychologist, Ms. Jolene, provided the twins with weekly scaffolded assignments, a sequence of assignments that gradually increases complexity on the topics taught, followed by a one-on-one video call. 

When SHINE first saw the twins at the start of 2020, they could barely read common English words. The last we assessed them start of 2021, they have jumped three in the Dolch Word List. Today, they are working on comprehension instead of word recognition now. 

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