Wyatt spent eighteen months in the Stepping Stones program at Atlanta Speech School where the classroom is staffed by a Speech-Language Pathologist, an Occupational Therapist, an Education Specialist, and an Assistant Teacher. Wyatt went from almost non-verbal to quite the chatterbox in just eighteen months. We joke they did too good a job because he talks non stop!
Unfortunately, the Stepping Stones program ages out at age five and we were forced to find a new school for Wyatt. After visiting multiple schools in the Atlanta area we decided on a private special education school that touted a therapeutic approach but after almost two years we recognized that the school was not delivering on their promise and tests showed that Wyatt had in fact made very little progress. We were also frustrated that we were forced to supplement with outside therapy which is both time consuming and expensive.
Having had both excellent and poor school experiences allowed us to see what works and what doesn’t. We believe incorporating occupational therapy and speech therapy are critical to a child’s success as therapy targets multiple facets of their education and sets the child up to be successful.
Given no other school in our area provided a carefully curated program tailored to the child with a therapeutic approach integrated into their education, we decided to create it ourselves and Cornerstone Preparatory School for Therapeutic Education was born in 2017.
Our program has changed with the children’s needs over the years but two constants that remain the same are maintaining a therapeutic academic approach and our wonderful team of teachers/therapists who are always thinking outside of the box when approaching each child’s needs.