Curriculum

The curriculum for the school has been adapted from several published functional curriculums focusing on all areas of daily living including:

• Applied Academics
• Life Skills
• Vocational Curriculum
• Technology
• Floortime and Therapy Programs
• Special Olympics

After School Enrichment Program

Heart of Hope Academy incorporates this curriculum through carefully selected and designed “centers” within the facility.

• Art
• Fitness Circuit
• Therapeutic Riding
• Recreational Swimming
• "Next Step Up" Riding Lessons
• Tennis

Summer Programs
Heart of Hope Academy offers inclusion day camp programs throughout the summer.

Heart of Hope Academy Inclusion Camp at High Meadows

• Camp Description (pdf)
• Eligibility (pdf)
• Enrollment & Fee Form (pdf)

Heart of Hope Academy Inclusion camp at Cowart Family Ashford Dunwoody YMCA

• Enrollment & Fee Form (pdf)

The Children are educated using a developmental approach considering each child from three different vantage points:

1. The unique level of functioning in and adaptation to the environment

2. The level of function that reasonably can be expected at the child’s level of development

3. The age-specific challenges and vulnerabilities to which the child is subject