The Children's Unit for Learning Disabilities
What is CULD?
CULD, established in 1974, functions as an independent clinic with Binghamton University as its sole sponsor and directly accepts referrals from teachers, physicians, school districts, other clinics, parents and members of the helping professions.
Who does CULD serve?
CULD primarily serves children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old who have been diagnosed as having a learning disability or an attention deficit. While these diagnostic labels are not used as rigid selection criteria they are descriptive of the children that CULD serves.
CULD typically accepts children who:
Intensive one-to-one and small group instruction. Specifically emphasizing academic remediation in:
CULD, established in 1974, functions as an independent clinic with Binghamton University as its sole sponsor and directly accepts referrals from teachers, physicians, school districts, other clinics, parents and members of the helping professions.
Who does CULD serve?
CULD primarily serves children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old who have been diagnosed as having a learning disability or an attention deficit. While these diagnostic labels are not used as rigid selection criteria they are descriptive of the children that CULD serves.
CULD typically accepts children who:
- Are having difficulty in school with reading
- May be poorly motivated
- Are demonstrating performance at a level not comparable with their classroom peers
- Have significant behavior problems
- Have significant cognitive problems
- Have significant developmental problems
Intensive one-to-one and small group instruction. Specifically emphasizing academic remediation in:- Reading skills, including phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, spelling and writing
- Improvement of the child’s classroom behavior
- Development of positive attitudes toward academic work in general
- Attention skills, self-control, and perseverance
- A complex and highly refined motivational system provides each child with positive incentives to learn appropriate classroom behaviors and academic material
- Highly individualized programming specific to skill level and pace of each child
- Improve the child's classroom deportment
- Develop positive attitudes toward academic work in general
- Creation of a positive incentive system to encourage appropriate classroom behaviors and improve academic performance
- Spring Term: February – May
- Fall Term: September – December
- The Fall and Spring terms each have two possible sessions for enrollment
- Both meet twice per week on Monday and Wednesday OR Tuesday and Thursday, from 4:00 to 5:30
- Summer Term: Dependent upon interest and resources summer sessions may be offered
- CULD is located within the Institute for Child Development (ICD) which is located on the Binghamton University campus in Binghamton, New York.
- For directions to the ICD please go to the “about us” link on the left.
- The tuition fee is $250 per semester and is due at the first session of each term.
- The Jennifer Tinkepaugh Memorial Scholarship Fund
- Referrals may be made directly to CULD by calling (607) 777-3313, or by emailing icdread@binghamton.edu.
- After an initial phone interview, if our program appears to be appropriate, an assessment will be scheduled for your child at the Institute for Child Development
- The purpose of the assessment is to determine whether or not CULD is able to meet the needs of the child, as well as to aid in creating individualized programming for your child
- This assessment is performed without cost and is a prerequisite for admission of a child to CULD
- CULD does not provide formal diagnostic workups or written reports of the admission assessment
