At Great Lakes Academy, your child will learn academic content and social skills side by side with individualized expectations in a warm community environment. They will engage in academic content with hands-on teachers providing a multi-sensory approach to learning and real-world experiences. They will find empathy and tolerance in both teachers and peers, and learn to express empathy and tolerance themselves. Children who have struggled in traditional environments thrive at GLA. They find acceptance, self-confidence, and new learning in equal measure. We afford each student the opportunity to develop an appreciation of their own uniqueness, as well as a sense of accountability and responsibility for their academic experience.
We have found success with students from many backgrounds, who come to us with many different diagnoses. Our faculty and community environment can help students address concerns like:
- ADHD
- Learning differences like Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and/or Processing Disorders
- Asperger’s Syndrome (High Functioning Autism)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Sensory Integration Disorder
- Anxiety Disorders and Depression
- Extreme shyness or fear, isolation from peers
- Low self-confidence