I recently visited Academics West in Manhattan for a tour and meeting with our friends there. AW is a small, therapeutic K-12 school that particularly focuses on kids who have failed to make progress in other, less supportive settings. A sizable plurality of the kids are behavioral, and the staff does an incredible job attending to their needs.
Read MoreThis week I would like to give a bump to David Jenkins, a friend of mine who has been involved in a theater called Broken Box Mime Theater. They are a very talented and successful mime troupe that focus on nonverbal storytelling for non-speaking kids, through physical performance gestures and expression.
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In a typical year, parents will be thinking about school supplies, school clothes, and what reading their child will need to do in advance of the school year. This year is different, in large part because there are so many unknowns.
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In this installment of our feature series, we are pleased to share about our experience visiting Eagle Hill, a private school in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Demographics
Eagle Hill’s average student has above average cognitive intelligence and struggles with language-based learning. With classifications of dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, auditory processing disorder, executive functioning disorder, ADHD, and/or receptive-expressive language deficits, many Eagle Hill students enter the school behind grade level in reading, writing, and math.
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The special education world, and tuition reimbursement in particular, can be confusing and daunting to navigate. Many families of special needs children assume that you need a significant amount of money to pay for tuition at a private school before suing a school district or the Department of Education for the cost of tuition.
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