Student Profile & Services
Who Is A Complex Learner?
Wolf students are Complex Learners who are not easily categorized or diagnosed. They do not have one particular learning disability and usually receive more than one diagnosis. Complex Learners have multiple attention and learning challenges that present in different ways. These special education students often experience school failure in a traditional school setting because they don’t have the support or environment they need to be able to access learning.
That’s where The Wolf School comes in.
Who Wolf Serves:
Complex Learners may have difficulties with social-emotional skills, speech-language skills, sensory-motor skills, academic skills, and cognitive skills.
Profiles May Include:
- ADHD
- Autism
- Anxiety
- Communication Disorders
- Executive Function Disorder
- Language-Based Learning Disabilities
- Specific Learning Disability (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia)
- Social Communication Disorder
- Sensory Processing/Developmental Coordination Disorder
Read a list of some common characteristics observed in children with this learning profile at home and at school.
What the Wolf School CAN provide:
- Integrated speech and language services/support
- Integrated occupational therapy services/support
- Social-emotional learning and support
- Academic support within a small setting/classroom
- A very low student: teacher ratio
- Small class size (no more than 9 students in Lower School, 11 students in Middle School)
- Individualized goal-setting on IEPs and Learning Plans
- Check-ins with our student support clinician
- Having our student support clinician be a liaison with an outside therapist
- Strong school-parent partnership
- Home carryover strategies
Profiles the Wolf School CANNOT Support
- Presentation of a primary emotional, mental, or behavioral disorder
- Consistent displays of maladaptive forms of communication (i.e. physical aggression, destructive and/or self-injurious behaviors, elopement, etc.)
- Self-harm or substance use
What Wolf CANNOT provide:
- Continuous one-to-one pullout support
- An individualized program for one student separate from the classroom
- Therapeutic Support (Mental Health Services)
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy
- In-house, direct physical therapy services
- Support of significant behavioral needs
- Support of significant mental health needs