Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Atlanta Speech School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Atlanta Speech School is comprised of four education programs, the Katherine Hamm Center (formerly known as the Oral School), Stepping Stones (a pre school) another preschool called the Anne and Jim Kenan Preschool and the Wardlaw School. In addition there are four [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Oakwood School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Oakwood School in Annandale, Virginia is a small day school for kindergarten through eighth grade students. There are about 110 students at this school in the suburbs of the Washington, DC area. It was started in 1971 and retains the founding director, who was [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Camperdown Academy © 2007 Sanford Shapiro I have heard about Camperdown Academy for many years but this was my first visit to this school in Greenville, South Carolina. This is small day school for kids with learning disabilities in grades one through eight. The primary school kids are generally six and [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Schenck School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Schenck School is located in Atlanta, Georgia for bright dyslexic students in grades one through eight. The school plans on opening a kindergarten in September 2007. Founded in 1959 by David Schenck, it has grown in size and reputation; it now enrolls approximately [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Little Keswick School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Little Keswick School is a therapeutic boarding school for middle school and high school boys. Most people who know of Little Keswick have thought of it as a school for kids with primary behavioral issues, which it is. However it has evolved [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Ivymount School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The IvyMount School is actually a continuum of school programs and clinical services that address the needs of kids from fours years old to young adults of twenty-one. Their 225 students come from the greater metro Washington DC areas and most have significant cognitive [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Odyssey School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Odyssey School is located in Stevenson Maryland, nearby to Baltimore, and is primarily for dyslexic students in grades 1-8. The campus is on forty-two acres of beautiful rolling hills. Begun in 1994 with 20 kids, it now stands at nearly 160 students. Odyssey [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Howard School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Howard School is located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. There are over 125 students at this K-12 day school for students with learning disabilities. The largest percentage of kids who go to school here are bright kids with a dyslexic profile. The school is [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Oakland School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Oakland School is a boarding and day school for students with learning disabilities and is located in Keswick, Virginia. Keswick has a very rural look to it though it’s not that far from the University in Charlottesville. Originally founded to serve the needs [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Chelsea School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro In Silver Springs Maryland, not far from the University of Maryland, is the Chelsea School. Chelsea was started in 1976 and is for students with learning disabilities in grades 5-12. The majority of their students have language-based learning struggles and most of them are [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 6th, 2006 6 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Janus School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Janus School is located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. This is a school for students with learning disabilities in grades K-12, and was incorporated in 1988. Two plus years of planning went into the design of the school and in 1990 Douglas Atkins (now [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 5th, 2006 9 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Lab School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Lab School is in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC and was founded in 1961 by Sally Smith, who is also the head of the Master’s Program in Special Education: Learning Disabilities, at American University. It’s a K-12 school for children with learning [...]