Crossway Academy is a unique place that provides a therapeutic environment that increases a student’s ability to learn. Our small class sizes create more opportunities for more individualized and differentiated instruction.
As Crossway continues to expand and service children with diverse needs and abilities, we have always recognized the need to teach and support the WHOLE child. Part of that support comes from our occupational, physical and speech therapists who facilitate student development of handwriting, social-emotional regulation, fine motor skills, motor planning and self-care. Additionally, our students receive music therapy, Allegro Movement Therapy and extracurricular activities such as Soccer Shots.
We are taking things a step further and creating a functional curriculum that targets the following domains:
These domains target skills that can often be challenging for our students. With it now being embedded into our school's curriculum, we expect to see progress in the whole child!
Some skills that your child has already learned includes:
Our founder and teachers work diligently in updating this curriculum. Your students' needs are at the center of our preparations, which promises a curriculum that is individualized.
As Crossway continues to expand and service children with diverse needs and abilities, we have always recognized the need to teach and support the WHOLE child. Part of that support comes from our occupational, physical and speech therapists who facilitate student development of handwriting, social-emotional regulation, fine motor skills, motor planning and self-care. Additionally, our students receive music therapy, Allegro Movement Therapy and extracurricular activities such as Soccer Shots.
We are taking things a step further and creating a functional curriculum that targets the following domains:
- Self Care and Domestic Living
- Recreation and Leisure
- Social Interactions
- Employment and Community Preparedness
These domains target skills that can often be challenging for our students. With it now being embedded into our school's curriculum, we expect to see progress in the whole child!
Some skills that your child has already learned includes:
- Self Care: feeding, hygiene routines and desensitization programs for haircut or going to the dentist
- Self Advocacy: when and how to ask for help
- Recreation and Leisure: how to use free time appropriately; how to engage in free time activities other than technology
- Social Interactions: big vs. little problems and the appropriate responses to those problems
Our founder and teachers work diligently in updating this curriculum. Your students' needs are at the center of our preparations, which promises a curriculum that is individualized.
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As a practitioner, Shelley Dean, OTD, OTR/L recognized a need for more pediatric therapy services in the Charlotte area. In 2004, Shelley opened Crossway Pediatric Therapy as a sole provider. Shelley chose the name "Crossway" to demonstrate the journey made by families and children with special needs. The image of the bridge symbolizes the child's path which ultimately leads to their dreams and independence. Shelley opened Crossway Academy in 2011 with Dorian Ladue , M. Ed. to fulfill the need in the community of special needs children.
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- Give families in the community an option for an all-inclusive special education program.
- Operate the Academy in a fully-operational therapy clinic.
- Evaluate, create and implement an individual curriculum and lesson plan for each child.
- Implement a curriculum based on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study—modified for the special needs of each child.
- Evaluate each child by our staff of onsite Occupational and Physical Therapists and Speech Language Pathologists.
- Provide onsite group OT, PT and S/LP therapy services.
- Provide training lessons in social skills through modeling, group sessions, and role playing.
