A private special education day school in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
“We're not going to fail you. We're not going to discriminate against you, or give up on you, regardless of how unready you may be according to traditional standards. We are not going to label you with a handle, such as dyslexic or brain-damaged, and feel that we have now exonerated ourselves from the responsibility of teaching you. We’re not going to punish you by requiring you to do things you can’t do. We’re not going to talk about your difficulties to learn. Rather, we will take you where you are, and we’ll teach you. And the extent to which you fail is our failure, not yours. We will not cop out by saying, ‘He can’t learn.’ Rather, we will say, ‘I failed to teach him. So I better take a good look at what I did and try to figure out a better way.’”
— Seigfried Engelmann
Mission
Our mission is to use evidence-based practices and the science of Applied Behavior Analysis to enable children with developmental disabilities to reach their highest potential and to become advocates for themselves.
Curriculum and Instructional Methods
The Grove School provides a high staffing ratio (1:1 to 1:2) for our learners.
We provide instruction in academics (math, reading, language arts, social studies, science), social-emotional skills, communication, executive functioning, self-care, home living, community use, self-advocacy, leisure, health, and safety, with an emphasis on cross-curricular planning and application of learned skills to the situations in which they are actually used.
Students receive a tailored curriculum based on on-going assessment. Teachers collect data on skill performance and challenging behaviors to inform changes to teaching procedures and/or behavior plans.
We assess the supports that children need to learn effectively (e.g., group size, reinforcement, aids/accommodations), and provide this while teaching learning skills that either allow for supports to be faded (e.g., group size to increase), or allow for children to use their compensatory strategies independently.
We place a strong emphasis on transition planning and fading supports to prepare children for adulthood.
Related Therapy Services
Related services are embedded into the school program through consultation and coordination of care between related service providers and teachers. We coordinate care with healthcare providers (ABA, speech, physical therapy, occupational therapy, etc.) and offer a shorter instructional day (4.5 hours) than is typically found in other settings. This permits our students to access medically necessary ABA services at school and at home, which allows for high coordination of care between the medical and school models and fading of support as progress is made.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding admission.
Email
info@groveschoolatl.org
Phone
(470) 223-8123