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- New Leaf Academy of North Carolina
New Leaf Academy is a private boarding school for girls in North Carolina. New Leaf's program offers a supportive, homelike environment and the finest education available. The New Leaf all girls private school program is tailored to 10 to -14- year-old girls who need extra guidance, nurturing and personal attention in their academic and personal lives. Courses are offered year-round, with the average length of stay lasting between 14 and 18 months.
- New Leaf Academy of Oregon
New Leaf is a therapeutic boarding school that offers a safe, nurturing environment for struggling middle school age girls. At the time of admission, our students are over 10 and under 14 years of age. Our 14-18 month program teaches positive self-expression, responsibility and helps troubled young girls and their families transition to a better place. Their program is tailored to the developmental, social, emotional and academic needs of a pre-adolescent and young adolescent girl.
- Stone Mountain School
Stone Mountain School, a therapeutic boarding school for boys located in the mountain setting of a 100-acre campus in western North Carolina, serves boys ages 11 to 16 with issues such as attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities. Stone Mountain School offers numerous outdoor activities that have both a recreation and therapeutic benefit. The beautiful yet rustic surrounding serves as an experiential classroom where the natural and logical consequences of daily living are clear and understood. The program offers group therapy and academics through an adventure-based experiential model. Stone Mountain School creates a caring yet highly structured community by limiting the living and academic group size. Staff teaches and mentor basic living skills while implementing the Level System of Personal Development that is at the core of assisting young men toward responsible, self-managing behavior.
- Academy at Swift River
Located in Western Massachusetts, surrounded by the scenic Berkshire Mountains, the Academy at Swift River specializes in working with adolescents ages 13-18 (Grades 9-12) having social, academic and familial difficulties. The Academy at Swift River combines cognitive and emotive approaches in order to allow children time for natural growth within the classroom, the family, the environment and themselves. The 14 month program also provides an overseas community service experience as part of the curriculum.
- Achievement Academy
Achievement Academy is a non-profit United Way agency and charter school that serves children from birth through age six who have developmental delays of disabilities in a caring, family-friendly atmosphere that makes a difference in learning and in life.
- Bromley Brook
Bromley Brook boarding school for girls educates young women to be tomorrow's leaders. Our mission is to teach each girl to recognize her own individual needs and to use her self-awareness to achieve more than she thought possible. At Bromley Brook, our faculty is hand-selected for their professional expertise and their boundless enthusiasm for working with girls. Beginning with the admissions process, this faculty collaborates with the student, her family, and referring professionals to create an Assessment-Based Individualized Learning Plan. What makes Bromley Brook School different from other girls' boarding schools? Our emphasis on assessment. Our comprehensive, research-based assessment allows us to create a truly individualized approach to your daughter's education and personal growth.
- Copper Canyon Academy
Copper Canyon, in Rimrock, Arizona, is a boarding school for girls ages 13-17 that are in need of a structured therapeutic environment. The program offers a warm, nurturing environment that promotes emotional and academic growth for every student. The staff at Copper Canyon Academy is comprised of well-trained professionals working with adolescents. Copper Canyon Academy boarding school for girls assists families and gives them the reassurance that there is a wonderful future ahead for their child and family. We truly believe combining a warm, caring, structured environment allows students to progress to their fullest potential.
- Glenholme School
The Glenholme School is a family choice boarding school for children with special needs situated on over 100 idyllic acres of Connecticut countryside. Children ages 10 to 18, at admission, who need a highly structured learning environment can prosper in this safe, nurturing school. It provides a value-based program to show students the way to academic success.
- Oakland School
Oakland School is a small co-ed boarding and day school that enables children who have dyslexia, learning disabilities, or organizational and study skills difficulties to reach their academic and personal potential. Thanks to a success-oriented environment and time-tested methods, hundreds of Oakland students have successfully returned to mainstream education since the school's founding in 1950. The school is located on the site of a former plantation in the rolling countryside of central Virginia, just eleven miles east of historic Charlottesville. Oakland's peaceful country setting and nurturing environment allow for truly remarkable learning to occur.
- Southeast Journeys
Southeast Journeys is an academic semester program specifically tailored to help children 13 -17 with Asperger's Syndrome, Non-verbal Learning Disorder, and High-Functioning Autism thrive in an experiential learning environment. Academics, social skills training, expert staff and peer support come together in a nurturing atmosphere to help children build self-confidence and gain more independence in school, within social interactions and in the community. It is a journey that enables students who may have struggled in more traditional environments - to seek their full potential for life success.
- Talisman Summer Camps
Talisman Summer Program caters to youth, ages 9-17, with issues such as attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities who would excel in a residential program that focuses on establishing positive routines and provides diverse daily activities. Our activities provide a fun environment in which campers can develop self-esteem, trust in self and others, and the basics of good decision-making. We believe that the skills learned during our programming will later transfer to home, school, and in other social settings.
- The Gow School
The Gow School is the world's preeminent college preparatory school for dyslexic young men. The core component of Gow's unique program for remediating dyslexic learners is called Reconstructive Language. RL is a multi-sensory presentation of language that is reinforced throughout the curriculum. In order to develop mature individuals who understand the importance of citizenship, Gow's academic program extends far beyond the classroom.
- The Greenwood School
The Greenwood School, founded in 1978, is a pre-preparatory boarding school for boys ages nine to fifteen have been diagnosed with: dyslexia; specific language-based learning disabilities / learning differences (LD); receptive language and/or expressive language deficits; executive functioning deficits; attentional difficulties (ADD or ADHD); disorders of written expression; dysgraphia; or speech and language needs. In fact, a combination of these learning disabilities / learning differences (LD) are often clustered together in most Greenwood students learning profiles. Despite their learning challenges, their students are highly intelligent and have significant talents in the arts, in woodworking, or in athletics.
