Camperdown Academy, Greenville, South Carolina

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Camperdown Academy is a unique school, designed to meet the needs of the student with dyslexia. Individualized Orton-Gillingham instruction, multi-sensory classroom teaching, and attention to developing the talents of the child with dyslexia form our primary goals in educating our students.

While language instruction forms the core of the education of a Camperdown student, and Orton-Gillingham remediation, simply the best education a student with dyslexia can receive, remains pure and unaltered, it is only one of many facets in a student's education here.

Orton-Gillingham remediation, the best education a student with dyslexia can receive, is a multi-sensory approach to teaching children to read and write. While our approach is structured, sequential, and cumulative, it is also individualized to meet the needs of the learner. Rather than rote learning, the our tutors address the language cognitively, teaching the student how the language works. Through Orton-Gillingham, students develop their reading and writing skills.

Our classroom teachers, also trained in the Orton-Gillingham Approach, apply its tenets in every facet of their teaching. The instruction is multi-sensory, direct and explicit. The teachers, with an enormous fund of knowledge and experience, know best how to approach the instruction of each child in the school community.

The faculty of Camperdown do not limit their teaching to academics, however. The social and emotional growth of each child affects his or her success in our school community and in the world at large. We know our students well: they thrive in an environment where the rules are explicitly stated, where the boundaries are clearly set, and where discipline is consistent and fair. Nevertheless, each situation is handled on an individual basis because our students are, indeed, individuals, with personalities, backgrounds, and learning styles unique unto them.

Several of our faculty are national experts in the field of dyslexia. We present teaching strategies across the country; others seek our counsel when making decisions regarding reading and writing instruction and learning strategies in the classroom. We feel fortunate to have such a wealth of knowledge within our walls and believe strongly that that knowledge should be shared. In addition, part of our mission is to bring other experts in the field to the Greenville community to share their ideas with parents and educators in the area.

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Independent private co-educational day school in Greenville, South Carolina. 6 to 16, 107+ pupils.

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Camperdown Academy

501 Howell Road,
Greenville, South Carolina 29615-0296

Tel: 864-244-8899

Fax: 864-244-8936

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