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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. The Rankin Institute, named for benefactors David and Nancy Rankin, was established in 2004 as an outreach program to provide education and resources to teachers, professionals, and parents beyond those directly involved with the academic programs at Fletcher.
The Fletcher School is a non-profit, independent, college preparatory school offering intense remediation in academic subjects as well as opportunities to learn strategies for compensating. 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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