Special education, nonpublic school serving 3rd through 12th grade students with exceptional needs, learning disabilities, emotional disorders, behavioral challenges, autism and other health impairments in Torrance, CA since 1966.
Since 1966 the 3rd-12th grade, coed, nonpublic, special education school serves children and families with severe learning, social, emotional, behavioral, and autistic challenges.
Our Heritage Program students with learning, social and emotional disabilities on an academic track to earn their high school diploma.
The Spectrum Program for middle and high school students with autistic spectrum ...disorders uses an alternative curriculum that teaches functional skills and focuses on social, emotional, and relationship development using guided participation and community-based learning activities.
The Self-Advocacy and Independent Living (SAIL) Transition Program supports young adults, ages 18-22, with autistic spectrum disorders as they build independence, living, and job skills to transition to life beyond high school.
The after school hours Family Services Clinic provides evidence based group and family therapy, and parent training; plus neuropsychological evaluations and psychoeducational assessments.
Switzer Learning Center nurtures challenged kids to believe, achieve, and thrive!
Individualized special education instruction, counseling and guidance, language and speech development and remediation, behavioral analysis and interventions, and psychological and educational assessments help students achieve academic, vocational and personal goals previously unattainable in other educational settings. A nurturing, therapeutic team of dedicated professionals, extracurricular and enrichment activities, advanced technology, home/science and student kitchens, computer lab, arts and crafts studio, music production and editing studio, mechanical skills shop, occupational therapy room, and fitness gym support students' development, learning and success.
Switzer Family Services Clinic provides neuropsychological assessments and psych-educational evaluations; cognitive behavioral adolescent groups for coping with depression, coping with anxiety, and building social skills; Active Parenting Groups; and individual or family therapy.
