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OBJECTIVES
The Shelton School and Evaluation Center is a
private, state-chartered, nonprofit, nonsectarian
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 schooladministered 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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