Overview

Learning Prep School is an innovative educational and therapeutic milieu for students with language and learning disabilities. Understanding that language skills are the basis for all learning, LPS's unique curriculum integrates the teaching of language skills in all subjects. Serving students from communities throughout New England, LPS is the only school specifically designed for language-impaired students within the region.

Our record of accomplishment is also unique. While most language-impaired students fare poorly in the public schools, many students who enter LPS early in their academic lives are able to return to the public school setting. Having learned the necessary compensatory strategies, these students often complete high school and find employment. Older students who enter LPS, later graduate, choosing to go on to higher education or work.

To truly meet their needs, language and learning-disabled students require an educational milieu that offers a language-based curriculum - one that assumes language deficits and integrates the teaching of language skills in all subject areas - within a supportive context of coordinated adaptive and social services. Without it, the statistics suggest, many of these students will never learn to read or write, let alone master the basic skills for independent living. Studies show they become dependent on their parents and/or the State for the remainder of their lives. With such intervention early on, however, many can continue their education in more mainstream settings. Those who receive such instruction later in their educational careers go on to productive employment and independent lives.

LPS has been providing language and learning-disabled students with such an educational milieu since 1970. Serving students from over 110 communities throughout New England, our programs are designed for language-impaired students within the region. Our record of accomplishment is also extraordinary.