Our goal is to ensure each student leaves NEARI with: Increased self-regulation capacity; Improved relationship skills; improved life, educational and/or work-related skills, including learning readiness, reading, executive functioning, and community access skills; a commitment to making a positive impact in the wider world; and the ability to create nourishing personal routines and advocate for self around learning strengths, goals, and communication needs. For example, over the years, NEARI has developed NEARI’s Layered Reading Model. This Model views readers as emerging, intermediate, or advanced and supports ongoing assessment and remediation designed to address not only cognitive reading disabilities but underlying neuro-development deficits and learning style differences that affect reading capacity. This results in the use of a wide variety of reading programs tailored to each student’s reading needs.