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Mountain Peak Academy offers an academic program for students with mild learning disabilities

by maria101 on Jul 3, 2009

The Mountain Peak Academy (MPA) in Weston, Florida was created to address the needs of a special community of students whose abilities surpass their academic achievements due to a learning disability. The children in this program must have average to above-average intelligence with a professionally diagnosed learning disability and minimal behavioral issues. MPA students enjoy the benefit of interacting and studying within the mainstream setting of a small college prep private school while also receiving individualized attention and instruction through the classes that the Mountain Peak Academy provides. MPA program instructors work collaboratively with the students’ mainstream teachers to ensure that the professionally prescribed classroom modifications are being provided in all educational settings.

Participants in The Mountain Peack Academy are evaluated for entrance using a combination of tools that can include an IEP that has been developed by the student’s...Read More >>



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