OVERVIEW
Ocean State Academy is a Rhode Island State Department of Education–approved private school that provides a comprehensive special education program for the full range of K–12 eligibilities, including: emotional/behavioral disorders, specific learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, speech-language disorders, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, other health impairments, and multiple disabilities.
For students who have struggled in the general education classroom due to these significant challenges, it is essential to create a safe and structured learning environment that offers continual support, personalized attention, encouragement to display self-promoting behaviors, and motivation to achieve.
Within this secure and nurturing environment, students are taught self-management skills and held accountable for their actions as we seamlessly weave all aspects of our program — academic, behavioral, social, and emotional — into an integrated whole that we call our Student Empowerment Movement. This holistic, outcomes-driven model equally balances our unflagging educational commitment to our students with their ever-growing commitment to their own education.
As we guide students toward proactive, productive, and positive decision making within a collaborative setting of community learning, we simultaneously deliver customized and intensive academic and behavioral interventions that lead to meaningful milestones, rewarding results, and much brighter futures.
At Ocean State, we leave no stone unturned in uncovering each child’s greatest strengths, deepest self-respect, and firmest sense of personal efficacy.