OUR STUDENTS
Our students are smart, creative, joyful, compassionate, resilient, and they are BRAVE! With a language-based learning difference or attention difficulties, school can be challenging. Knowing that they can develop the tools to succeed in and out of the classroom reignites their love of learning.
At The Southport School, cerebrodiverse learners in grades 2 – 8 with language-based learning differences like dyslexia, and attention issues like ADHD find a safe environment to take bold steps and make great strides in developing independent thinking, self-esteem and self-advocacy, and support a successful transition for continued academic achievement.
Students discover their full potential
Our students are just like students you would find in any classroom, in any school. They have varied interests, talents, and abilities. At conventional schools, because of their learning differences and attention issues, they are often left unserved because of their ability to compensate with their relative areas of strength and underappreciated because getting through the school “work" took so much effort.
In our co-educational elementary and middle school programs, students can safely take risks championed by an expert faculty that is student-focused and uses research and evidence-based approaches to learning. Our whole-child approach reawakens students’ love of learning, resiliency, and sense of possibilities.
A successful student
Student fit is the most important aspect of the enrollment process. We are dedicated to educating students with language-based learning differences and attention issues, often in combination with academic deficits in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, and math. Many of our students also benefit from a curriculum that includes developing their executive functions, daily tutorials using research-based, multisensory techniques such as the Orton-Gillingham approach and Lindamood Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing® method, and the structure of a small classroom.
While every student is unique, most TSS students share some combination of the following characteristics:
- Average to above average intellectual abilities
- Diagnosed with one or more of:
- Dyslexia
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Auditory processing delay or disorders
- Language and reading comprehension struggles
- A learning difference in combination with ADHD/attention issues
- Struggles with executive functioning
- No significant social or emotional needs
While we believe that every student would benefit from our program, our teachers are experts in approaches specific to language-based learning differences and ADHD. Therefore, our program is not designed to support the needs of students with:
- Nonverbal learning disabilities
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Pervasive developmental disorder
- Developmental delay
- Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
The Southport School is NOT Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored, or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood, or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell—an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills—in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by The Southport School.