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OBJECTIVES
The June Shelton School and Evaluation Center is a private,
state-chartered, nonprofit, nondenominational day school for
children with specific language-based learning differences. A
language-learning different child shall be defined as a child with
average or above-average intelligence, with adequate vision and
hearing, without 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 and 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),
that reduce distractions to a minimum, and that 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 which increases an
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 the student 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 one’s self and
others;
8. Prepare all students to reach their full potential.
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