“Education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are teaching young people to cut flowers, when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

~ John W. Gardner

Abbey Hill’s Functional Academic Services are specifically designed to meet the needs of children with a variety of developmental disabilities through evidence-based resources and strategies.
Our Certified Special Education Teachers provide 1:1 direct support to our scholars in developing functional academic and social adaptive skills.
Explicit instruction is focused on those adaptive functioning skills that are necessary for us to navigate the demands that are placed on us by our environments in a way that is effective.

Program Components

  • 1:1 student to teacher ratio, staffed with Certified Special Education Teachers.
  • Individualized curriculum and instruction.
  • Multi-sensory approach to instruction.
  • Practical Life Skills.
  • Social Skills Instruction.
  • Functional Academic Instruction in Reading, Writing, and Math.
  • Decision making and Self- Direction Management.
  • Behavioral Modification.