If your child has cerebral palsy and you're thinking about homeschooling, check out Laurel Springs School.

Students with cerebral palsy can thrive at the accredited Laurel Springs School. We offer kindergarten through high school students a high-quality distance learning education. Our teachers look at each student's individual learning style so our students can enjoy personalized learning with online and/or text-based curriculum. Laurel Springs has a knowledgeable and caring staff, college counselors, transcripts and diplomas, and much more.

We invite you and your child with cerebral palsy to explore home education through distance learning at Laurel Springs School.

Recent articles about a Laurel Springs Student with cerebral palsy:

Closing the Gap
"Girl with cerebral palsy thrives with distance learning program"
Complete story... (PDF)

THE Journal
Assistive Technology: Making the Impossible Possible

An excerpt:
THE Journal, a publication that informs K-12 senior-level district and school administrators to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology, recently featured Laurel Springs School and one of our students, Sara Montgomery, who has Asperger's Syndrome. An excerpt below:

Sara, 16, has Asperger's syndrome a neurobiological disorder that resembles high-functioning autism as well as mild cerebral palsy. Not only wasn't Sara achieving to her potential in public school, she was becoming more and more isolated. In high school, the situation worsened as Sara had to confront bullies, too. "I felt she wasn't getting the education she needed," her mother, Shirley, says. "She started getting depressed." It wasn't that the schools didn't try to accommodate her; it was that their efforts more often than not just made her stand out more.

At Laurel Springs, Shirley found a school that would tailor its curriculum to her daughter's needs. Learning-style coaches meet with each student, assess the student's strengths and abilities, then design the curriculum accordingly. For example, a student with attention deficit disorder might be a hands-on learner, or a performer, or a game player. So the curriculum might involve more audio work instead of written work, or more hands-on materials for math.

After an assessment, Sara began an online curriculum. Now she works from her home and is thriving. She's a proficient typist, and she's self-motivated two attributes that suit her well at Laurel Springs. She's been getting mostly A's, and she feels better about herself. She has friends, and she doesn't have to face getting picked on in school anymore and her mother doesn't have to "worry about the phone ringing at work, saying, 'You have to come get Sara,' or worry about her being on the bus." The aspiring college student (83 percent of Laurel Springs students go on to college) wants a career that involves working with animals. "Laurel Springs is a great school," says Shirley. "It's a relief to know that there's a place out there where Sara can go to get the kind of education I want her to get."