Special Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Event
Join us for a Special “Teach-In” about how Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome impacts students in educational settings, and an information session on how Cajal Academy’s pioneering program for EDS Kids empowers them to thrive independently!
Wednesday, July 23, 3-4:30 pm
Virtual & In-Person
13 Marshall Street, Norwalk, CT 06854
Cajal Academy is the world’s first school specifically designed to meet the needs of kids with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other complex, chronic medical conditions. Our exclusive “Zebras” program is embedded within a broader school for students in grades K-12 who have very high analytical reasoning skills, paired with an area of learning, social-emotional, physio and chronic medical conditions.
Our first-of-its-kind program offers a whole new way to learn, designed by our licensed therapists based on current neuroscientific understandings. Program highlights include:
Facilities designed to meet the needs of medically complex kids
Coaching in how to self-monitor, self-manage and self-advocate for complex medical needs within educational environments;
Neuro- and Trauma-informed social-emotional approach putting scientific understandings about the impact of neurophysiology on learning and social behavior at the heart of our social-emotional learning and “behavior” management approach
Occupational, physical, cranialsacral, psychological, speech and language and neuropsychological therapies integrated into the school
Standards-based, college-prep curriculum, tailored for their unique learning profiles to make it accessible for a diverse range of learners
Collaborate with one another to solve real world problems
Training in how to optimize connections between “how we’re wired” and our learning and social-emotional outcomes
Learn about their unique profiles, and strategies they can use to self-monitor, self-manage and self-advocate for their needs
Learn project-management and self-regulation skills they can use to thrive independently in college and beyond
Join a diverse community of bright and intellectually-gifted kids
Please RSVP below to let us know that you’re coming—we look forward to meeting you!