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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP -

Your question is not really specific to Lab.  The goal at most special education schools is to get your child's issues remediated enough so that they can eventually matriculate out and into a mainstream school and still be successful....including graduating with a diploma and going to college.

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Not the OP, but this (above) has not been our experience in visiting both schools and speaking to the administrators and families with kids at each.  Lab and Oakwood both employ first rate multisensory, structured literacy and other evidence based programming for kids with SLDs and ADD.  [b]But from everything we have been told, they have a different view on matriculating kids out.  [/b]The Oakwood administration (and parents, neuropsychologists, etc.) will tell you in no uncertain terms that their goal is to equip kids to mainstream by 6th grade or so; they work toward that goal, expressly.  Lab does not express this as a goal.  Someone asked the question about how many kids matriculate out before 12th while we were there on our tour, and the administrator replied that a few kids matriculate out by 7th or so, but that it is not the norm (nor one of their expressed goals).  Both great schools, though different in their approach on this point, from everything we have heard.[/quote]

PP, Oakwood goes through 8th grade which is why they probably focus more on matriculating out than Lab does that goes until 12th.  Many kids come to Lab from a mainstream setting and are finally learning strategies that bring out their potential for learning.  It doesn't mean that a kid's dyslexia is overcome of cured, but they are definitely focused on making every student independent to the best of their ability.

If a kid went to Norwood vs. GDS, they might stress more in the tour where kids go after Norwood since it only goes through 8th than they do at GDS which goes through 12th.  That's not really an "approach."

"Mainstreaming" unto itself isn't a goal b/c if the dyslexia or other LD is severe, a child will need an IEP and continued support in a public school or private school.  It's really specific to the child.[/quote]

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