The Laureate Day School is designed to provide a structured academic and therapeutic educational setting.  We believe learning is a lifelong process.  To this end, we work to help each student develop the skills necessary to understand how to learn as well as what to learn.

We believe that an effective therapeutic program addresses the total child.  Our goal is to provide a structured program that addresses the student’s social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs.  We recognize the dynamic interaction between thinking, feeling, and doing.  We further recognize that home and community life are important contributors to a child’s educational and personal development.

Our therapeutic education program is presented through a multidisciplinary team approach.  In addition, consultation with appropriate mental health professionals and communication with parents and personnel from the student’s home school district are maintained to support the ongoing educational program.  Such interaction also helps identify and plan for the most appropriate educational placement and related services upon discharge from the program.

Students at Laureate Day School are encouraged to make choices whenever possible.  They are then encouraged to experience the consequences of their choices.  When appropriate, Laureate Day School allows the natural consequences of the student’s choices to take its course.  When a situation occurs in which the natural consequences are inappropriate, we employ logical consequences.  Logical consequences are utilized as a means of connecting the student’s behavior with its result so that the student has an opportunity to learn from his/her choices.  Generally, this endows the student with the responsibility for making choices and accepting the consequences that he or she has been taught will follow.  The inevitable result of this approach is the development of intrinsic motivation to understand oneself, to change and to grow.  We believe that these opportunities better prepare the student for the expectation of less restrictive environments in preparation for their lives beyond Laureate Day School.