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The Fletcher School, named for one of its founders, Mac Fletcher, was established in 1982 by parents who were frustrated by the lack of educational options for their children with specific learning disabilities. In 2001, The Rankin Institute, named for David and Nancy Rankin, was created to increase understanding and improved programs relating to learning disabilities by providing training, information, and services to the community.
The school began with six students and two teachers and now serves 246 students in grades K-12. The first kindergarten and twelfth grade class were added in the fall of 2003. This senior class was our first graduationg class in the spring of 2004. We are an independent school, operated as a non-profit organization, with a program designed to meet the individual needs of students with specific learning disabilities and attention difficulties. Our students must have an LD and/or ADHD diagnosis, documentation of average or above average IQ, and evidence that emotional or behavioral issues are not the primary concern. Specific learning disabilities may include diagnoses such as disorders in reading, written expression, or math; dyslexia, dysgraphia; and language processing deficits.
The Fletcher School offers a comprehensive educational program designed to build the academic, social and emotional competence of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. The program enables students to experience success and accept and value themselves. We recognize that our bright, talented, and often gifted students learn best in small classes with a very structured learning environment using multisensory techniques of instruction. Our program offers a student to teacher ratio of six to one (6:1) and is based on the principles of the Orton-Gillingham approach for teaching reading, writing, spelling, math, and all subjects as part of a total language system. Our instruction is sequential, cumulative, and repetitious in order to achieve mastery and ensure success for the student. |
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