School terms for the newly built special education boarding school had just commenced.
25 children with Asperger’s syndrome are expected to experience an environment especially designed for their exceptional needs.

Specialized teaching history began last August 23 2010 for these gifted kids. These kids who were viewed as low performers in their previous traditional schools are above intelligent children in real time. Kids with Asperger’s syndrome and high functioning autism lack social skills and very vulnerable to bullying. They are also easily intimidated with aggressive kids compared to the normal ones.

These needs cannot be furnished by public schools; often it is unsafe for special kids. Fortunately the Talisman Academy had made it possible and designed a safe learning haven for them.

The academy is under the Talisman Program which has been leading summer camps for special children for the last 30 years. The academy is oriented in determining ways of providing these kids with the right curriculum for success.

Molly Shiver-Blake, the education program director ensures that these kids with non-verbal learning disorders are taught well so they can be returned to their traditional schools prepared and eager to experience the outside world.

The academy’s student teacher ratio is 45:35; these means 35 staff members for 45 students which ages within 12-20. 8-11 students per class will be schooled to develop social skills, self-management and key functioning skills as well as science and math, life skills such as; cooking, and cleaning up their own meals.

Special academies are elite group of institutions in the land; only comprise of few numbers while there could be 2 out of 10,000 children with Asperger’s syndrome.

Marilyn Broadbent –a retired educator experience and observed New York students with such kind of autism to be struggling hard in some activities like gym sessions; these students often find it hard to cope up with the noise. She finds it necessary for such kids to enroll in boarding schools like Talisman Academy.