Technology is key to maximizing independence.
Our student population is incredibly diverse, but no matter the level of ability, technology plays a critical role in providing a successful education and a rich quality of life. Whether it’s a speech-generating device or customized grips for a pencil or a mobile app that makes it possible for a student—for the first time—to enjoy reading Call of the Wild, at Crotched Mountain School innovation breeds independence.
AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication)
- iPads and Speech-Generating Devices
Mobile tech like iPads and speech-generating devices have become a key factor in giving our students the ability to interact with their peers, staff, teachers, and surroundings. Book reading, scheduling, text-highlighting, Smart Board interaction, basic communication–if there’s an app for that, we’ll find it! - Eye Tracking
For students with profound disabilities that limit movement and communication, the groundbreaking Eyegaze assistive technology tracks their eye movements, allowing them to interact with a screen, communicate, or even use Bluetooth to close the curtains!
A Digital and Analog Experience
Sometimes you need the cutting-edge. But advanced circuitry isn’t always needed. We use communication boards and books filled with symbols and pictures, we create simple, paper-based social stories to help prepare students for upcoming events, and we’ll work with our Occupational Therapists to outfit our campus with things like utensil grips and adaptive tables. With us, it can be as simple as putting tape on the floor to help guide a student’s vacuum pattern.
Adaptive Equipment
On-campus, our skilled clinicians and Assistive Technology Professionals create environmental modifications and individualize technology to a student’s needs. Whether it’s an iPad key-guard fabricated specifically for someone’s finger size or big red buttons built for functionality and accessibility or custom safety equipment, what they produce on a daily basis is something you probably won’t find anywhere else!
Thanks to the surge of technology, barriers to learning are falling faster and faster–and we’re at the forefront.
Our student population is incredibly diverse, but no matter the level of ability, technology plays a critical role in providing a successful education and a rich quality of life. Whether it’s a speech-generating device or customized grips for a pencil or a mobile app that makes it possible for a student—for the first time—to enjoy reading Call of the Wild, at Crotched Mountain School innovation breeds independence.
The I’s Have It
- iPads
Mobile tech like iPads and speech-generating devices have become a key factor in giving our students the ability to interact with their peers, staff, teachers, and surroundings. Book reading, scheduling, text-highlighting, Smart Board interaction, basic communication–if there’s an app for that, we’ll find it! - iPods
Remember those? We understand that for some students, music can offer a much-needed therapeutic benefit that helps with anxiety and sensory issues. And instead of a phone, which can open up a host of distractions, the iPod—in all its prehistoric glory!—delivers music, and music only. - Eye Tracking
For students with profound disabilities that limit movement and communication, the groundbreaking Eyegaze assistive technology tracks their eye movements, allowing them to interact with a screen, communicate, or even use Bluetooth to close the curtains!
Rehab Engineering
On-campus, we have a rehab engineering department that can make repairs, create environmental modifications, and individualize technology to a student’s needs. Whether it’s an iPad key-guard fabricated specifically for someone’s finger size or big red buttons built for functionality and accessibility or custom safety equipment, what they produce on a daily basis is something you probably won’t find anywhere else!
A Digital and Analog Experience
Sometimes you need the cutting-edge. Sometimes you need the tried-and-true. In our technology classroom, we have a 3D printer to manufacture tactile cues for students with visual impairments or perhaps to generate custom models for science class (what does a molecule look like? Let’s just make one!)
But advanced circuitry isn’t always needed. We use communication boards and books filled with symbols and pictures, we create simple, paper-based social stories to help prepare students for upcoming events, and we’ll work with our Occupational Therapists to outfit our campus with things like utensil grips and adaptive tables. With us, it can be as simple as putting tape on the floor to help guide a student’s vacuum pattern.
ADMISSIONS
We accept students from all over the country, as far as California and Illinois, as close as New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
LEARNING
From the first class to afterschool to residential life, core academic work is supplemented by life skills education to ensure learning never ends.
CAMPUS LIFE
Life at Crotched Mountain is filled with things to do, places to see, and people to connect with. There is no shortage of fun and unique adventures to be had!
TECHNOLOGY
Whether it’s a speech-generating device or customized grips for a pencil or a literacy mobile app, at Crotched Mountain School innovation breeds independence.
ARTS AND MUSIC
It’s about creative expression! Making a clay mask or composing a song or drawing a comic – whatever captures their imaginations, our students have access to it in our arts and music program.
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