Our main focus is on facilitating a student’s successful reintegration to their previous setting or helping them transition to a more appropriate educational placement.
Program extensions are available upon school request.
Dearborn STEP serves a diverse student body in Grades 5 – 12 from districts all across Massachusetts.
STEP students represent a wide range of learning profiles. Some have average to above-average cognitive abilities, while others may experience below-average or low performance in certain areas.
Our trained teachers and clinicians support the individual needs of students with a wide range of social/emotional challenges, including but not limited to:
- Learning disabilities
- Executive functioning challenges
- Anxiety
- ADHD
- OCD
- Autism
- Trauma
- Depression and mood disorders
- School avoidance
Due to our intentionally small program size (with a maximum of 16 students), we can accommodate each student’s unique learning profile and adapt our teaching approach accordingly. Our clinical caseload is extremely small (1 or 2 students per clinician), which allows STEP to go deeply into a student’s history, collaborating with past collaterals and schools.