Landmark College is a private college exclusively for those with diagnosed learning disabilities, attention disorders or autism. Located in Putney, Vermont, Landmark offers two and four-year programs in the liberal arts and sciences. Landmark College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and provides to students a progressive and comprehensive overall college experience. Established in 1985, Landmark College was the first institution of higher learning to pioneer college-level studies for students with dyslexia. Landmark College offers degrees at the associate and bachelor’s levels, as well as summer programs and an online/hybrid graduate certificate in universal design and assistive technology for educators and professionals. The college is expensive; fees for the 2015–2016 year were $51,330. In 2015, it topped C.N.N. Money's list of most expensive colleges. It was also the most expensive four-year, private non-profit by list price according to the Department of Education's rankings for the 2012–2013 year; fees including room and board were reported to be $59,930 in 2013 and $61,910 in 2015. Scholarships of up to $30,000 are available.
Oak Hill Academy is a coeducational, nonsectarian private day school located in Lincroft, New Jersey, serving students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade. Oak Hill Academy was founded in September 1981 by educator Joseph A. Pacelli. The school is academically rigorous and boasts advanced courses in mathematics and Latin. Oak Hill has swimming as a mandatory part of the physical education program.
Bridges Academy is a college prep school serving twice-exceptional learners—students who are gifted but who also have learning differences such as Autism, AD/HD, executive functioning challenges, processing deficits, and mild dyslexia. The students are driven by creativity and intellectual curiosity. The Bridges educational model is strength-based and talent-development driven. Each student has an individual learning plan created to meet their diverse learning style, academic, creative and social/emotional needs. Stimulating core classes, abundant enrichment, small class size, extensive academic supports and a vital advisory and mentoring program are all part of the Bridges approach. The school is located in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.
Community High School, located in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States, is a private high school designed for children aged 14–18. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 2006.
Landmark East is an independent boarding and day school for students with language and learning difficulties, including attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and non-verbal learning disabilities in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 1979 it has helped hundreds of domestic and international students reach their full academic potential. Students benefit from small classes and a student/teacher ratio of 3:1. The Middle School program develops skills according to the student’s instructional level. The High School program provides university prep courses using adaptive strategies to help students earn a Nova Scotia graduation diploma. The English as a Second Language (ESL) program teaches students who have difficulty with English skills in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, listening, understanding and speaking.
Inclusion in education refers to a model wherein special needs students spend most or all of their time with non-special needs students. It arises in the context of special education with an individualized education program or 504 plan, and is built on the notion that it is more effective for students with special needs to have said mixed experience for them to be more successful in social interactions leading to further success in life. Inclusion rejects but still provides the use of special schools or classrooms to separate students with disabilities from students without disabilities. Schools with inclusive classrooms do not believe in separate classrooms. They do not have their own separate world so they have to learn how to operate with students while being less focused on by teachers due to a higher student to teacher ratio.
The Craig School is an independent, private coeducational day school located in Mountain Lakes and Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in second through twelfth grades.
Founded in 1926, the Rumson Country Day School is a coeducational, nonsectarian independent day school located on a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) campus in Rumson, New Jersey, specializing in educating boys and girls from nursery through eighth grade. The Rumson Country Day School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
Newbury Academy was an alternative private high school serving students in grades 9-12 that opened in September 2001, based in Dumont, New Jersey. From 2008-2009, Newbury Academy was a virtual school. All classes were conducted online, with teachers making weekly visits to the students' homes.
SINAI Schools is an organization based in the New York Metropolitan area that provides education for Jewish children and young adults with special needs. SINAI is the only Jewish day school for children with special needs that has received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The Briarwood School is a private Kindergarten through 12th grade school located in far western Houston, Texas, United States.
Westmark School is a private school in Encino, California, teaching 2nd through 12th grade. The school serves children with language-based learning differences including attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia among other learning disorders.
The Center for Research, Evaluation and Awareness of Dyslexia is a university-based program at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. It was established in 1996 to:
Eagle Hill School is a private co-educational college preparatory boarding school for students with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder in Hardwick, Massachusetts, established in 1967. Related, but independent schools of the same name were established in Greenwich and Southport, Connecticut, in 1975 and 1985, respectively.
Centreville Layton School is a private Delaware school for children who "learn differently".
The term twice exceptional, often abbreviated as 2e, entered educators' lexicons in mid 1990s and refers to gifted children who have some form of disability. These children are considered exceptional both because of their giftedness and because of their special needs Ronksley-Pavia (2015) presents a useful conceptual model of the co-occurrence of disability and giftedness.
Pace Brantley School, formerly known as PACE-Brantley Hall School, is a private school in Longwood, Florida specializing in teaching students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, Asperger syndrome, and other learning disabilities.
Spectrum360 started as an orphanage and shelter in Newark, New Jersey in 1883. Since 1999, it moved from Livingston into its current facilities in Verona, which were donated to the school by the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche.
The Gateway School is an independent school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan serving children ages 5–14 with learning disabilities. It currently enrolls approximately 180 students.
