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Causes: Education, Health, Mental Health, Rehabilitative Care, Residential Mental Health Treatment, Special Education
Mission: The learning center for the deaf's mission is to ensure that deaf and hard of hearing students achieve their full potential in an educational environment where language and communication are the keys to building competence, character and community.
Programs: Intensive day program - the program provides comprehensive educational and life skills programming for deaf children with disabilities that impact their cognitive and social/emotional development. This includes, but is not limited to, those with learning disabilities, development delays, and students on the autism spectrum. These students receive the full range of services offered to students in the day program and in addition are given a higher teacher to student ratio, behavioral programming based on their individual needs, and a range of support services from specialists. The program served 104 students.
walden school - walden school is a nationally recognized bilingual-bicultural residential program that provides comprehensive treatment and educational services for deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents between the ages of eight to 22. Walden school students are challenged by severe social and emotional difficulties, and have significant treatment needs that have not been successfully addressed in other academic and residential settings. The program served 27 students.
day program - the day program provides a challenging academic program for typically developing deaf children ages 3 through 21 utilizing a curriculum aligned with the common core standards. At the secondary level options include a wide range of required and elective academic coursework, ap classes, mainstreaming in the framingham public schools, and a career and technology program. The program served 67 students.