Brehm Preparatory School Empowers Students

Brehm Preparatory School empowers students with complex learning disabilities to recognize and optimize their full potential.

Complex Learning Disabilities involve processing deficits that can affect reading, writing, math, listening, spelling, reasoning, organization of information, and/or spoken language.

o Dyslexia
o Dysgraphia
o Dyscalculia

Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder that results in a persistent pattern of impulsivity, inattention, and/or hyperactivity

Asperger's Syndrome is one of the autism spectrum disorders or pervasive developmental disorders and is associated with poor social development; restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors and interests; and often accompanied by poor gross motor skills

Nonverbal Learning Disorder is a developmental or learning disorder that adversely affects motor functions, sensory integration, visual spatial functions, arithmetic, social cognition and inferential reasoning.

Speech and Language Disorder is characterized by inability to produce correct and/or fluent speech sounds or problems with voice when addressing issues with speech. When addressing language it is characterized by one, difficulties in understanding information presented orally and/or through written form; two, difficulties sharing thoughts, ideas, and or feeling; or, three, difficulties with both of the aforementioned.

Auditory Processing Disorder is difficulty in processing information in the central nervous system that results in problems with sound location; auditory discrimination; auditory pattern recognition; temporal integration, discrimination, ordering and masking; discerning competing noises; and, degrading acoustic signals.

Pragmatic Language Disorder is difficulty in the initiation and on-going engagement of conversation, as well as, the inability to correctly use social convention and/or read body language

Secondary Social/Emotional Disorders that often accompany or are a result of difficulties encountered due to one or more of the primary disorder mentioned above. Some of the most common include:

o Anxiety Disorder
o Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
o Adjustment Disorder
o Immaturity
o Depression

Due to the co morbidity of these varying learning, social and emotional disorders our population has diverse profiles.