Shelton Summer 2025 Catalog - Flipbook - Page 3
SUMMER, THE SHELTON WAY
Summer, The Shelton Way offers a variety of academic and enrichment courses, the Scholars program,
Speech Clinic courses, and sports camps for students in Early Childhood through 12th grade.
Summer programs feature Shelton School’s unique multisensory and discovery learning methods
of instruction. Classes are open to Shelton and non-Shelton students with average to above
average intelligence who may or may not have a language-based learning difference.
Language-based learning differences are the
result of auditory and visual processing
dysfunctions and include:
• A specific language disorder, dyslexia
• Related disorders:
– ADHD
– Specific Math Disorder
– Specific Written Expression Disorder
– Specific Oral Language Disorder
– Developmental Motor Disorder
Director of
Auxiliary Programs
Sara Brown
Summer School
Coordinator for
Lower School
Tabitha Valdez
A student with a language-based learning
difference has:
• Average or above average intelligence
• Adequate vision and hearing
• Absence of primary
emotional disturbances
Summer School
Coordinator for
Middle & Upper School
Samantha Cason
Executive Director
Suzanne Stell
Associate Heads of School
Mellany Barnett and Amy Cushner
Executive Director Emerita
Joyce S. Pickering
Director of Outreach
Chris Bedenbaugh
Head of Lower School
Christine Davis
Head of Middle School
Patricia Gallaher
Head of Upper School
Jenny Cheatham
MISSION STATEMENT
Shelton on a mission - a school and resource center dedicated to ~ making a difference ~
by serving and empowering the lives of ~ students who learn differently ~
Because Not All Great Minds Think Alike
