Our students are bright children whose dyslexia or other learning differences present challenges that prevented them from finding success in other school placements. Student profiles might include dyslexia, processing difficulties, memory challenges, weak language abilities, as well as attention and executive function concerns. Our program is designed with the intention that our students can ultimately attend a mainstream school.

The Summit School employs multi-sensory teaching approaches, utilizing auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthetic modalities. Teachers also use discovery and project-based techniques and learning approaches to ensure student engagement. Our team of teachers uses proven approaches, strategies and materials to collaboratively monitor each student’s progress and make adjustments that target individual learning needs as they present themselves. When creating lessons and homework assignments, care is taken to consider individual student profiles.

For more than 30 years, our graduates have successfully joined their peers in well-known high schools and attended rigorous colleges and universities across the country. Our alumni have successfully pursued careers in education, science, speech-language pathology, technology, human services, finance, Naval aviation, doctoral studies, acting, film production, fashion and graphic design and business. We are enormously proud of them. Their stories are testimony to the work that we do and the importance we had in their success.