Accreditations & Memberships
Accreditations
Founded in 1982, Brehm School is one of the premier junior and senior high schools in the Midwest with accreditation specifically designed to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.

Brehm School is proud to be accredited by:
- The Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS)
- Brehm School is also proud to be approved by the Illinois State
- Board of Education (ISBE) to serve students with disabilities.
Brehm’s three full-time speech-language pathologists are active members of:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Brehm is also a current member of the following organizations:
- International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
- Learning Disabilities Association of
- America (LDA)
- National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
- Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS)
- Small Boarding School Association (SBSA)
- National Association of Private Special Education Centers (NAPSEC)
- Midwest Boarding Schools (MWBS)



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Brehm’s holistic program focuses on the combined academic, social and emotional effects of having a learning disability.
Our students often have multiple diagnoses affecting their performance with a language-based etiology. We recognize the combined effects of learning disabilities (LD), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), language-based processing issues, executive function challenges and the social and psychological implications of not being successful in an academic environment.
Brehm offers direct interventions for students with
Specific learning disability: defined as a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.

- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD)
- Communication disorders
- Auditory Processing Disorders
- Processing and memory deficits
- Tourette Syndrome
- Anxiety
- We also support interventions requiring behavioral and emotional support related to academic issues.