The speech-language program, part of the Summer Program held by Katherine Thomas Scholl, a private non-profit agency, is destined to enhance the use of language and speech for children with primary deficit in these areas. The classes are made of maximum nine children aged between 3 and 7, and the program is led by a speech-language pathologist and an assistant.
             The classes in this school are taught after a modified and adapted Montgomery County curriculum. This curriculum provides instructions in phonics and reading/listening comprehension, uses multi-sensory methods and strategies for specialized language,
             Certified special education teachers and their assistants teach full day multigraded special education classes. All students participate in art, music and drama classes. Every student has access to the internet in class and there is also a computer lab available for the classes.
             The summer program coordinator manages a stuff made of a lower and middle school director, a high school director, a director of speech-language services, a director for the occupational therapy, and the teaching stuff which consists of licensed special education teachers and assistants, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists. There is also a number of volunteers involved.
             First the children speech and language skills are evaluated through a screening and then the children attend individual or group therapy sessions with the help of computer assisted therapy tools. An interdisciplinary treatment program and a social skills group are two other important services offered by this program.
             There is a good interaction between the teachers and their students due on one hand to the fact that there are maximum 10 students in a class and to the close relationship with the parents who are informed about school's activities during regular workshops, on the other hand.
             By the means of the testing service, the students are o...