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Are you looking for a small school environment where expectations are set, and students are provided individualized skills to do their best?
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Do you want your child’s voice to be heard, allowing them to make positive contributions to their school?
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Are you looking for differentiated instruction to meet your child’s specific Individualized Education Plan?
The Astor Learning Center (ALC) is a therapeutic school for children facing educational, emotional, and behavioral challenges. The ALC provides a nurturing learning environment where children who have often experienced failure in school can finally succeed. Started in 2010, Astor’s Day Student Program enables children from the local community to stay at home and attend a more structured educational environment that better meets their needs.
No one will be denied access to services due to their inability to pay. A discounted/sliding fee schedule is available based on family size and income.
The ALC includes:
- Small class sizes of six to eight students including individual instruction, as needed
- High student/teacher ratios of one teacher and two teacher assistants/class enhance learning
- Special area classes in Art, Computer Lab, Physical Education, Library, & Music
- Spacious, well-equipped, and beautifully decorated classrooms
- Large windows in wide hallways
- A team-based approach to problem-solve for struggling students
Services Offered:
- K-8 grade educational services
- Development of social and emotional competence of young children
- Intensive speech/language therapy when indicated
- Occupational & Physical therapy when indicated
- Individual & group therapy when indicated
- Other specialized services, as needed
Referrals:
All referrals must come from the child’s home school district Committee on Special Education (CSE).
Contact Us
Stephanie Buckman
6339 Mill Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Tel: (845) 871-1031
Email: Please use our Program Contact Form »
More Information
Program brochure (PDF file)
Folleto del programa (archivo PDF)
Learn about Astor's other Hudson Valley Community-based programs:
- Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
An alternative to school, short-term intensive therapy program - Astor Learning Center
Therapeutic school for grades K-8 - Care Management (Health Homes)
Medicaid benefit that refers, organizes, and coordinates provider(s) involvement for families - Counseling Centers
Providing therapy, psychiatric services and case management to children and adolescents and their families - Day Treatment
In partnership with BOCES, a school-based intensive mental health and special education service for grades 2-12
Intensive Day Treatment
Therapeutic Transitions Program - Enhanced Coordinated Children’s Services Initiative
A multi-agency process that seeks to prevent out-of-home placement and coordinate services to meet the family’s complex needs in Dutchess County - Family Therapy and Support Services
Services to youth with behavioral issues, including Juvenile Delinquent (JD) and Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) in Orange County - Head Start
Federally funded preschool programs. Read more… - High Fidelity Wraparound
Evidence-based care coordination that uses a highly structured, team-based, family-centered approach - Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI)
Short-term in home family therapy program for families who live in Dutchess and Ulster Counties - Prevention / Intensive Home Based Services
In-home program that serves parents with children at risk of foster care placement in Dutchess County - Probation Based Services (J-RISC)
Family therapy program for children involved with Dutchess County’s Department of Community Corrections and Probation. - School-Based Behavioral Health and Training
School-based clinics and other mental health/casework supports embedded in community schools. - Serving Youth iN Their Communities (SYNC)
Home and community based services for children with Medicaid - Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home Program
Enhanced therapeutic foster care program with case management, advocacy, medical services, and 24/7 support