Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Sep 24th, 2007 6 Comments »
The LD Schools Visit project has always had one primary goal: To make it easier for parents to find the right schools for their children with learning disabilities. By categorizing schools by the learning profile of the students they serve, we think we’ve added another valuable tool for a school search.
Clicking on each of the [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Trident Academy
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Trident Academy is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and is just outside of Charleston. Not too bad a spot, right near the bay. Trident is a day school for kids with learning disabilities in grades K-12.
Trident was started in 1972 and enrolls up to 160 students. [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Feb 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Centreville School
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The Centreville School is a school for kids with language-based learning disabilities and has been around since it’s founding in 1974. It’s located in Centreville, Delaware, which is very close to the border with Pennsylvania. It works with kids from age four through 14 and is [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Wardlaw School
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The Wardlaw School is another school for kids with language-based learning disabilities in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s actually part of the overall organization called The Atlanta Speech School. However, since it is distinct in its profile than the other parts of Atlanta Speech, I’m making a separate [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Atlanta Speech School
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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 clinical programs [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Oakwood School
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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 a student [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Camperdown Academy
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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 seven years [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Schenck School
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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 195 students [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Little Keswick School
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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 over the [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Ivymount School
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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 and developmental [...]