At Perkins, we take an individualized approach to educating each student. Based on their specific needs and abilities, students are taught core academics as well as the Expanded Core Curriculum to ensure every child is prepared for life after Perkins.
We serve children with a range of needs and abilities, from college-bound students to those in need of ongoing community support. All our programs include both academic and functional learning options -focused on each student’s successful transition to adulthood.
Our faculty has decades of experience teaching students how to access information. Our specialists in orientation and mobility, speech and language pathology, physical and occupational therapy, individual and group counseling and assistive technology are experts in their fields. They all share a common goal: to educate and prepare our students for independence today and later in life.
We practice a whole-child approach to learning. Student-specific goals focus on subjects across the General and Expanded Core Curricula.
Each student learns communication skills in the form that’s right for them. For one student, that might be braille, and for another, large print. For a student with Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI), literacy lessons incorporate proven intervention strategies.
