Our program serves students 5-18 years of age who fit the Alberta Education criterion of special needs. Specifically, our students have been assessed as having mild/moderate or severe disabilities.

They are of average to above average intelligence, achieve significantly below their grade level, and have the potential to improve their academic performance. Our students typically may exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:

• Reading, Writing, Spelling and/or Mathematics problems.
• Lack of organizational, time-management, and planning skills.
• Lack of study skills resulting in incomplete assignments and poor exam performance.
• Unable to stay on task due to attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorders.
• Low self-esteem and confidence.
• Inappropriate behaviours due to frustrations caused by an inability to succeed in an educational environment where traditional approaches are used.
• Labeled as lazy or unmotivated.
• May be diagnosed with or exhibit characteristics associated with learning disabilities such as Tourette's Syndrome, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Autism, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and others.
• Behavioural patterns caused by physical, emotional and other abuse.