Mission Statement

Fairhill is dedicated to providing the best possible education to learning different students, emphasizing each student's unique pattern of information acquisition, processing, and expression. To accomplish this, Fairhill focuses upon academic, social, and emotional development. Fairhill guides its students in "learning to learn."

Philosophy

Fairhill School is a private, non-profit college preparatory school serving students in grades one through twelve. Fairhill's primary purpose is to provide a superior education for studentsof average and above intelligence who have been diagnosed with a learning difference such as Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Auditory Processing Disorder, or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Fairhill students possess the intellectual potential to succeed academically, often at superior levels; however, because of a learning difference, these students have experienced great frustration in traditional school environments, resulting in academic performances that do not reflect their potential.

Fairhill's staff guides individual students in "learning to learn" through a multi-sensory approach to teaching, a small student/teacher ratio, and a warm, supportive atmosphere. At Fairhill each student is recognized as an individual with a unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses. A Fairhill education is designed for the whole child, to develop a firm foundation in problem-solving and critical thinking skills that will enhance emotional, social, and academic development.

While many Fairhill students choose to complete their high school education and graduate from Fairhill, many others successfully transition to public or private schools of choice after recognizing the nature of their learning style and developing appropriate study and organizational skills.

Fairhill Diagnostic Assessment Center

The Diagnostic Assessment Center offers all levels of assessment batteries to meet the individual needs of each client from childhood to adulthood. Services range from a basic update of academic achievement to full psychological and psycho-educational evaluations. The Center is open daily from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM. Saturday evaluations can be arranged by appointment, and information about hotel accommodations convenient to Fairhill for our out-of-town clients will be provided upon request. MasterCard and Visa are available as payment options.

Jane Sego, Executive Director

16150 Preston Rd.
Dallas, TX 75248

Phone: (972)233-1026
FAX: (972)233-8205
Visit our website at www.fairhill.org

Our Philosophy

Key School recognizes each student as an individual who deserves the opportunity to reach his or her academic and intellectual potential, regardless of previous educational experience, learning difference, physical limitations, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or age.

Small group and one-to-one instruction in language and other academics gives each student the opportunity to reach his or her educational, professional, vocational and personal goals.

Our Goal

The goal of Key School, to provide a positive and effective learning environment for each student, is accomplished through efficient organization of intellectually exciting curricula, effective instructional methods, and specially trained teachers who assist each student in successful achievement of personal and academic goals.

Through small group and one-to-one instruction, each division of Key School is directed toward returning the student to the mainstream of education and independent learning.

Our Beliefs

Each student is a valued individual with unique physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs who deserves the opportunity to reach his or her academic and intellectual potential.

Key School creates an atmosphere of support that is designed to help students cultivate an appreciation for the ethnicity of others and an acceptance of physical and learning disabilities.

Assessments should be fair, conveyed with a lucid explanation so parents and faculty clearly understand the goals and results, and utilized as a mechanism for developing expectations for student learning.

Appropriate and integrated curricula, which fulfill the requirements for academic credit, are modified, augmented, and enriched for the unique learning style of each student and specifically designed to maximize each student's potential and serve as a catalyst for the internalization of concepts.

By using diverse methodologies in the classroom setting, students are provided a variety of opportunities to apply learning strategies, to demonstrate academic achievement, and to develop new skills.

Students learn in different ways and are provided an individualized schedule designed to meet his or her specific strengths, weaknesses, and academic goals.

Students deserve encouragement from trusted mentors to guide them in making good decisions.

Students deserve a caring staff that will direct all efforts toward continuous improvement.

Academic growth is the result of a strong emphasis on the basics, a well-rounded curriculum, and appropriate academic challenges.

The school encourages a strong work ethic, a high standard for personal accountability, and a keen sense of moral understanding.

Students should exhibit high ideals of citizenship: take responsibillity for personal actions; respect authority; value the diversity and interdependence of all people; act ethically with honesty, fairness, and integrity.

Our Mission

* Key School's primary objective is to provide a positive, nurturing, structured, and effective learning environment where students feel secure in their ability to learn.
* Key School motivates students to develop time management skills, organizational skills, learning strategies, and effective study skills.
* Key School facilitates optimal learning for students who need specialized remediation.
* Key School enhances students' self-esteem and confidence by designing a success-oriented learning process.

Important Details
* Orton-Gillingham based curriculum
* Four to One Student/Teacher ratio
* Students grouped by ability, not grades

Mary Ann Key, Director
Donna Mills, Principal

3947 East Loop 820 South
Fort Worth, TX 76119

Phone: (817)446-3738
FAX: (817)496-3299
Email: administration@thekeyschool.com
Visit our website at www.thekeyschool.com

Shelton School and Evaluation Center


Mission Statement

Shelton School is an independent, non-sectarian, coeducational, non-profit school whose purpose is to provide excellence in education to learning-different children, preschool to grade twelve. The School offers this population a full, broad-based curriculum with a strong academic orientation and a nurturing family atmosphere which considers the physical, intellectual, emotional and social growth of each student.

Vision Statement

Shelton School, moving toward three decades of providing effective programs, wishes to continue and to offer a model of this program to local, state and national groups interested in providing services for these students.

The Shelton Difference

Founded in 1976 by Dr. June Shelton, The Shelton School is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian, co-ed school serving intelligent children with learning differences. It has been the turning point for thousands of students. Shelton's individualized, structured, multisensory, academic program, especially written for the learning-different students, challenges students by building the necessary skills. Shelton's niche is providing positive, practical solutions to the problems of learning-different students, with the goal of remediation and return, where possible, to the mainstream classroom. For some, Shelton's full school program is optimal for the duration of their undergraduate days.

Shelton's Full Scope

- Full program day school, preschool to grade 12
- Accredited by SACS, SAIS
- Full clinical battery of evaluation testing
- Speech - Language - Hearing Clinic
- Early Childhood Center - ages three to six
- Private therapy for adults
- Referral services
- Scholars Program - ages six to adult
- Summer School

Joyce S. Pickering, Hum. D.
Susan Fleming, Ph.D., Director of Evaluation Center
Marilyn Aaron, M.S., C.C.C., Director of Speech & Language Clinic<.b>

15720 Hillcrest Dr.
Dallas, TX 75248