Our Approach
Star Academy provides a comprehensive, intensive, highly specialized academic and social communication program for students with learning differences within a calm, supportive, happy, environment. We deliberately create and maintain this environment to reduce stress, enhance students' learning potential, provide a positive school experience, and assist students in their development of friendships and other positive relationships.
Interwoven into each student's program is a combination of:
- Classroom based academic instruction provided by experienced, credentialed special education teachers
- Intensive one-on-one and small group skill development supported by our broad spectrum of highly trained on-sight specialists
- Electives designed for leadership development, creative expression, and social communication
- Daily PE
- Daily music or fine arts with opportunities to showcase artistic skills
- Numerous school wide and classroom based social activities, theme days and other flights of fancy where students can enjoy time with friends and simply have fun
- Field trips and other activities that provide fresh air and offer other experiential hands-on learning opportunities
Our comprehensive, individualized, holistic program emphasizes students’ strengths, provides opportunities to shine, and targets specific areas of need from a 360-degree perspective:
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Academic: Identify and leverage students’ strengths to help remediate targeted areas of academic difficulty. Social: Assist students in developing social thinking, social interpretation and effective communication skills so they may enjoy a life of meaningful friendships/relationships, become effective self-advocates and contribute to the communities in which they live. |
Emotional: Help students expand areas of self-mastery and self-understanding, leading to self-reliance, self-confidence, resilience, and positive self-esteem. Physical: Improve development of the central nervous system through movement and physical skills to enhance learning, body awareness, and enjoyment of physical activities. |
Together, these attributes contribute to our goal for students to experience academic success, develop their talents, maintain friendships and lead productive and gratifying lives.
