About Brehm
Overview
Since 1982, families of adolescents and young adults with complex learning disabilities across the United States and in several other countries have known Brehm Preparatory School as the place where their son or daughter learned how to learn. Brehm provides a holistic education that uniquely integrates the academic, social, and emotional needs of students. Brehm offers a family-style environment designed to foster independence and responsibility. Guiding the students within the everyday school community are dedicated teachers, dorm parents, tutors, and staff who actively participate in the 24-7 program. While many components exist within the Brehm education, the core may be the authentic blend of faculty professionalism and caring evident by even a brief visit to the Brehm campus. During the schools 25 years of existence, Brehm has taught students from 41 states and 9 other countries. In addition to the student body, the Brehm community includes an active Parents Association. Many alumni continue to connect with the school, and several have held employment at Brehm, where they pass along the mentoring and nurturing that they themselves received as students. The administrative and support staff provide the infrastructure which makes possible the full range of operations and relationships with all Brehm stakeholders.
Brehm's 80-acre campus contains a Student Activities Center, including gymnasium, dining hall, theatre, cyber cafe, and exercise room, a health center, five dormitories, two two apartments, three classroom buildings, a pond, a woodshop, a recreation office, maintenance facilities, and an administration building.
Brehm provides a comprehensive range of services, which include instruction in core academic areas, social skills development, life-skills development, recreational activities, cultural enrichment, and career/college exploration, and transition. Medical and psychological counseling services are available on a contractual basis as needed.
Learning Disabilities
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability (LD) refers to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information.
A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence. Indeed, research indicates that some people with learning disabilities may have average or above-average intelligence. Causes of learning disabilities include a deficit in the brain that affects the processing of information.
Brehm Preparatory School addresses a broad spectrum of learning disabilities. Students at Brehm may demonstrate processing, perceptual, or conceptual deficits, which occur in visual, auditory, or motor functioning. Deficits in one or more of these areas affect academic, social, and emotional growth. Brehm students receive support and instruction as to the nature of their learning disabilities and their specific learning styles. Students can cope with the demands of their content coursework by using strategies and techniques they learn. There is daily emphasis on developing advocacy skills and organizational strategies that will allow students to cope with the demands in the classroom, job market, and in family and personal interactions. The goal is for Brehm students to apply these strategies throughout life, and to become self-advocates in dealing with their learning differences.
More About Learning Disabilities at Brehm
Brehm Preparatory School is a private boarding school for students with learning disabilities. Our mission is to empower students with complex learning disabilities to recognize and optimize their full potential. Brehm employees use a holistic approach by evaluating the individual needs of each student throughout the academic year. Students enrolled at Brehm Preparatory School have various learning disabilities from Dyslexia, ADHD/ADD, Aphasia, Aspergers, nonverbal learning disorders (NVLD), visual processing and Dysphasia. Brehm employees a diverse staff customizing each student needs, leading innovation as a school for learning disabilities. Faculty train students to use assistive software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, Kurzweil 3000, My Reading Coach, Fast ForWord, and Inspiration as needed to help students achieve their academic goals. Brehm also staffs a speech and language department for students who require these needs to work with their disabilities. A nursing department is on site to monitor and deliver students health needs.
All members of Brehm Preparatory School recognize the courage it takes for the parents and their children to be separated during the academic year. An extreme amount of individualized support is on site to monitor and care for students after their academic day is finished. After school tutoring is available if individualized support for the student or by parent is requested. An assortment of activities are scheduled for the students to participate after their school day. Brehm has twenty-five years of teaching learning disabilities education. This experience indicates a boarding school environment is the most affective way for students with Learning Disabilities to optimize their full potential. Brehm Preparatory School has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. Brehm was the only boarding school to be honored separating Brehm for the rest.
Brehm is more than a private boarding learning disability school for children with ADHD or Dyslexia. Brehm's faculty and staff are trained to educate students with nonverbal learning disability challenges. Administration manages student enrollment so faculty and staff have the time and resources to give students individualize support. Classroom sizes range from one to eight students per class. Brehm's administration team is constantly researching student learning disabilities. The research process is a tremendous help for the success Brehm has with graduating LD students to continue their education. Please take the time to browse our Website. The Website has many online articles describing Brehm's culture, philosophies and strategies proving Brehm is one of the best in educating children with learning disabilities.
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1245 E. Grand Avenue, Carbondale, IL 62901 •
PH: 618.457.0371 • F: 618.529.1248 • admissionsinfo@brehm.org