Overview

Edgewood School offers three unique programs for non-traditional learners. The Hitchcock School serves children at the middle and upper school levels who need assistance with social skills instruction. Edgewood also offers a specialized program for students with autism or other diagnoses along the Pervasive Developmental Disorder Spectrum. Additionally, Edgewood provides academic services and treatment for students, ages 5-17, with severe emotional and behavioral disorders.

Edgewood School strives to help children improve the way they function in the school environment through a low student-to-staff ratio and individualized instruction. The professional staff of certified special education teachers, teachers’ assistants and licensed clinical therapists work together to provide education and treatment to students and their families.

The School is approved by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Illinois State Board of Education and the Independent Schools Association of the Central States.

Services

Services are focused and individually customized for children and adolescents who need academic support, stabilization and treatment. Services include:

• Special education in classrooms of 8-10 children
• Occupational, speech & language, art and music therapy
• Nursing, psychiatric, medical, psychosocial and educational evaluation and consultation
• Individual, group and family therapy
• Social skills and life skills training
• Physical education
• Tutoring
• Parent education
• Respite care

Demographics

• 150 children—including up to 20 who live on campus in the residential treatment program
• New admissions are generally girls, ages 5-17 and boys, ages 5-14
• Children come from more than 23 school districts in Missouri and 10 school districts in Illinois

Referrals Sources

• School districts
• Parents
• Private physicians
• Children’s Division