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  Edgewood SchoolResidential/Day Treatment |
PermanencyPreventionAutism |
 
 

Edgewood School: Edgewood's Webster Groves campus provides special education classes for children in residential and day treatment programs. Each classroom has 8-10 children, staffed by a certified special education teacher, an aide, and a volunteer with individual and group therapies provided by a licensed clinical social worker. The low student-adult ratio provides the individual attention needed to help each child make educational gains. A six-week extended school year program combines academics with active enrichment learning experiences during the summer months.

Residential Treatment/ Day Treatment: The Residential Treatment Program provides 24-hour -a-day care for 40 children. Licensed clinical social worker-therapists, certified special education teachers and childcare workers provide the core treatment, education and therapy in the on-campus school and living units.

Permanency: Permanency provides a continuation of treatment services for the child and family after the child leaves the residential or day treatment program. The goals are to maintain the gains made, and to facilitate a successful home and school adjustment. Follow-up studies show that more than 75 percent of the children are making a successful adjustment to home, school and community after leaving Edgewood.

Prevention: Intensive in-home therapy is provided for families of children with severe emotional disorders with the goal of keeping the child with his/her family in their home.

Autism: The highly successful Childhaven Program serves children with communication disorders, such as Autism or Asperger's Syndrome and ranging in age from three to twelve. The children receive special education services, behavioral therapy and adjunctive therapies in speech/language, music, art and physical. An Early Childhood Special Education program is a part of the Childhaven Program. An active family support component assures carry over gains made at school to the home setting and involves siblings in education and activities.