Brehm Students Finish with a Splash At Carbondale's Boat Regatta

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Over the weekend, some of Brehm's students participated in Carbondale's "Great Cardboard Boat Regatta". This Carbondale tradition takes place each spring, with participants creating human-powered boats out of cardboard.

*The Great Cardboard Boat Regatta originated in Carbondale, Illinois as a final exam for SIUC's professors Richard Archer and then Distinguished Professor Buckminster Fuller. Fuller is now known as an American architect, inventor, author, designer and visionary. His legend lives on in Carbondale as the tradition he started over 20 years ago continues here and across the nation. Brehm students have participated in The Great Cardboard Boat Regatta for nearly 10 years.

What is Brehm?

Brehm is an accredited junior-senior high school. A family style boarding school for students, grades 6 through 12, with complex learning disabilities.

OPTIONS Program at Brehm serves post high school students with learning disabilities who need to further develop academic and social skills required for success in college, vocational/technical school, and the workplace.

Brehm Preparatory School Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, offers a unique holistic program that individually addresses each student’s academic, emotional, and social needs.

Brehm uses the term “complex” learning disabilities in recognition that students experience difficulties in multiple areas of functioning. Brehm’s holistic program focuses on the combined academic, social and emotional effects of having a learning disability.

Our students often have multiple diagnoses affecting their performance with the core issue of having a language-based etiology. We recognize the combined effects of LD/ADD, language based processing issues, executive function issues and the social and psychological implications of not being successful in an academic environment. Brehm offers direct interventions for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, NLD, aspergers, anxiety disorder, tourettes, auditory processing disorder, speed of processing disorders and interventions requiring behavioral and emotional support as it relates to academic issues.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009