The Vancouver Learning Centre
is the "Village" it takes
to get the very best outcome
for each learner.
The VLC is a Learning Centre, not a school. Click here for clarity.

The VLC is not a school but a Specialist Learning Centre. The VLC delivers a team-based process. A teaching captain is assigned to oversee the program delivery and to be the main contact with the parents who then become an integrated part of the team. Schools can then be involved as appropriate.

In the case of home schooling, the curriculum, homework tasks, testing, and the program to earn credentials and provide oversight to the curriculum is up to the distance education school. This becomes the learner’s school and the VLC will work collaboratively with the school’s contact person and will actively address all IEPs or special needs developed by that school.

Whether the student attends on site at VLC and remains as part of a class or works with a distance education school, the VLC becomes the specialist provider of one to one teaching based on the special needs of the learner in collaboration with the learner’s parents and the contact person assigned by the school.

The Vancouver Learning Centre
is the "Village" it takes
to get the very best outcome
for each learner.
The VLC is a Learning Centre, not a school. See here for clarity.
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Parents Advisory

Brain Injury, Traumatic Head Injury

When disease, or the effects of chemotherapy/radiation, or head injury due to sports injury or to automobile or accident occurs, the learning journey is interrupted, sometimes in devastating ways. At the Vancouver Learning Centre, intensive and comprehensive programs have helped children, adolescents and adults achieve “personal best” outcomes. We are here for the long term and have achieved some remarkable outcomes well beyond expectations.

Red Flags for Brain Injury

If a brain injury has occurred, even without the overt loss of consciousness, due to accident or sports injury, or motor vehicle accident, the following symptoms may occur:

  • Memory loss of parts of the content of the curriculum
  • Fatigue, headaches, dizziness, nausea, and other health complaints
  • Lower achievement than previously attained
  • Lack of independence in studying, preparation, or organization
  • Depression or sadness that was not present before
  • Withdrawal
  • Irritability
  • Difficulty with peer and family relationships

Young people who suffer concussion are often unaware of the seriousness of the problem for their future. They return to their sport or other sports too early. They are very vulnerable to serious life-lasting injury with repeated concussions, and they are more at risk once they have had the first one, especially while they are healing.

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