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OBJECTIVES
The Shelton School and Evaluation Center is a private, statechartered, nonprofit, nondenominational day school for children
with language-based learning differences. A language-learning
different child is defined as a child with average or above-average
intelligence, adequate vision and hearing, no primary emotional
disturbance, and who has failed or is at high risk of failing, when
exposed to school experiences using
conventional educational techniques.
Language-learning differences are the
result of auditory and visual processing
dysfunction and include the specific
language disorder, dyslexia, and the
related disorders of ADHD, specific math
disability, specific written expression
disability, specific oral language disorder,
and developmental motor disorder.
Shelton admits students with learning
differences of any race, color, religion,
national or ethnic origin to all the rights,
privileges, programs and activities
generally accorded or made available
to students of the school. We do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, national and ethnic origin in the administration of our
educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan
programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
The objectives of the program are the following:
1. Provide classroom settings that are structured (predictable),
reduce distractions to a minimum, and give individualized
instruction;
2. Present a coordinated multisensorial curriculum designed to
develop the symbolic tools (reading, writing, spelling, speaking,
listening, and math) necessary to gain, retain, and express
information;
3. Develop and present a curriculum that increases awareness of
one’s world (social studies and science);
4. Develop and present opportunities for experiences aimed at
cultivating aesthetic values and recreational skills (art, drama,
music, and sports);
5. Provide the technology that enables students to develop basic
computer skills and the knowledge to use this technology to
assist in written expression and research (computer);
6. Provide experiences that teach how to develop, use, and care
for one’s body (physical education, perceptual motor skills, and
health science);
7. Create an atmosphere conducive to emotional health: feelings
of success, fairness, concern, and respect for oneself and
others;
8. Prepare all students to reach their full potential.
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