Special-Needs Students to Enjoy Better Facility
A one-story retrofitted building in an office park in Mt. Prospect will eliminate unneeded challenges for students and enable the school to possibly triple enrollment.
Because he has autism, 11-year-old Vincent Giannini cannot go to just any school. “He needs a lot of one-on-one teaching,” said Vincent’s father, Steve Giannini. What Vincent did not need was a daily commute to the Easter Seals Therapeutic School in Waukegan – or even much further. But the elder Giannini and his family took turns making the long drive from Mt. Prospect to Waukegan until the school closed last summer. Their alternatives were institutions in southwest suburban Tinley Park or even Rockford. A series of connections, though, led the family to Camelot Therapeutic Day School in Des Plaines. Vincent enrolled Aug. 29. Earlier: Dist. 207 discontinues special education co-op. The Giannini’s daily stress of getting Vincent to school …
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Christopher Brinckerhoff
2:43 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011
Here's an update on Camelot School in Mt. Prospect. http://desplaines.patch.com/announcements/camelot-celebrates-opening-of-new-therapeutic-day-school-in-mount-prospect more ›