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[quote=Anonymous]My son is in MS at Siena and this is what I really love about it:

The teachers and staff really understand kids with language based learning differences. There are many other great things about Siena but this is the reason we are there. You can have a school with all kinds of bells and whistles but if the teachers don’t know how to teach your child, and the curriculum is not set up to teach to their strengths while addressing their weaknesses, everyone ends up frustrated and pointing fingers instead of working on finding solutions.

The assignments and homework are very consistent between classes. The students learn tons of great study and organizational strategies. They all use the same assignment planner. I especially appreciate their homework limits: each class only has homework on certain nights and they are not supposed to work on one class for more than 30 minutes. That way there are no surprises for the amount of time it takes to finish homework and my son doesn’t get stressed out if the homework doesn’t get finished in time. This really helps with homework anxiety. They also have an after school homework club so that no homework needs to come home.

The students in ES and MS get reading every day in addition to English class. We receive test scores at least twice a year that show improvement in reading, spelling etc. Even though my son was above average in reading, he still needed help with spelling and writing. This class has helped tremendously. Before he started at Siena, I considered keeping him at his old school and hiring a tutor to help with his LD but realized that we could never replicate the daily instruction he would get during school hours at Siena.

It’s a small school so it doesn’t have all the options that a larger school offers but I think they do a good job with what they have and offer a good amount of sports, music, after school options etc.

The students at Siena are great: smart, creative, kind, and well behaved. The school does not tolerate bullying. One of the things Siena does so well is that it knows its target population and doesn’t stray from its mission. They will only accept smart students who have mild to moderate language based LDs as their primary diagnosis.
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