CORS Head Start - Piqua

An ungraded, developmentally oriented program lets us teach students at an individual pace at Nicholas School. We combine academic instruction with perceptual motor skill training, bringing work on attention, sensory needs and fine and gross motor skills into the full school day. Teachers provide individual and small-group instruction for kindergarten through eighth-grade students who learn differently. Our program serves children with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, Tourette syndrome, Down syndrome and effects of brain injury. Smaller classes and one-to-one attention are part of our approach, and students have access to the Rehabilitation Center's Brain Wellness Center. We connect academic content with developmental practice rather than assigning every learner the same instructional pace. As a nonpublic, state-chartered school, we follow Ohio's operating standards for elementary and secondary schools. Our approved provider status allows families to use the Ohio Autism Scholarship or Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship. During summer, our program combines art, music and STEM with movement, reading, mathematics and neurological exercises. These activities continue the school's connection between academic learning and motor, sensory and attention needs.