CROWTHORN SCHOOL - A POSITIVE CHOICE IN RESIDENTIAL SPECIAL EDUCATION BECAUSE:
* It sees residential schooling as a means of enabling children to experience good family life, not as a replacement of such.
* It believes that all children should have access to the National Curriculum at a level appropriate to their ability.
* It has an adult/child ratio of 1:1 with a multi-disciplinary staff consisting of teachers, residential social workers, field social workers, an educational psychologist, a speech therapist, a school nurse, a consultant child psychiatrist and a consultant play therapist.
* It offers flexible, day, termly and 52 week education programmes.
* It is a non-profit making, non-maintained school.
IT CATERS FOR:
* Children whose emotional and behavioural difficulties are exacerbated by moderate learning difficulties, and/or through their experiencing specific/non-specific communication disorders, for example, Asperger's syndrome or a-typical autism.
