Center for Academic Strategies and Achievement (CASA)

NMH’s Center for Academic Strategies and Achievement, known as CASA, is at the heart of our academic support services. First and foremost, CASA  works with students who have documented learning differences to ensure that they receive reasonable and appropriate accommodations. CASA offers two specific avenues of support: accommodations and academic coaching.

Accommodations
Accommodations are designed to minimize the impact of a diagnosed disability on a student’s school performance and, to the extent possible, provide equal access to the curriculum. Accommodations affect how a student accesses instruction or assessment but do not fundamentally alter or modify the essential nature of a course, the curriculum, or graduation requirements. 

Students with diagnosed disabilities may request classroom accommodations by submitting documentation to learningskills@nmhschool.org. NMH follows nationally recognized documentation guidelines. See the specific documentation requirements for classroom and/or testing accommodations.

Academic Coaching
CASA offers individual sessions with an academic coach to help students strengthen their skills and build confidence. Work with a coach might include developing successful study strategies, improving executive function skills, responding to academic challenges, or developing communication plans between the student and their teachers. 

Coaching is available at the discretion of the CASA director, and priority will be given to students with a documented need as described in the