OPTIONS Girls Again Excel in Competition

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

OPTIONS Girls Again Excel in Competition

Recently, OPTIONS girls were able to compete in a martial arts tournament at Black's Martial Arts in Carbondale, Illinois.

The girls performed very well and each took home a medal in their area of competition.

In addition to life skills, girls in martial arts

also get to create lifelong friendships.

A proud group flashes new medals.

After the work is done, OPTIONS girls get time to play!

Martial Arts is being used as a therapeutic component of speech and language. It aids in sequencing, memory, auditory processing, pragmatic language, balance and posture, according to Carrie Collins, OPTIONS Speech Language Pathologist.

Click here for more news on previous OPTIONS martial arts competitions.

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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.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009