Special Classes Within Mainstream PA Schools
OROT
Melrose Park, Pennsylvania
215-935-0020
OROT offers diverse learners in Jewish day schools a personalized support program addressing academic, social and behavioral needs, while building confidence and promoting success. They seek to provide the best possible individualized Jewish, secular and social curriculum, instruction and environment.
Teams of highly trained educators are embedded within each of their four partner schools to provide the individualized academic, social and behavioral support that makes student success possible.
Jewish day school partners include the Forman and Stern campuses of the Perelman Jewish Day School, Caskey Torah Academy and Politz Hebrew Academy. All have varying Judaic curriculum.
OROT’s comprehensive curriculum includes instruction in reading, writing, math and Judaic studies, and the development of critical executive functioning and social skills. Support may be provided in an OROT classroom as well as during lessons taught in the mainstream classroom.
Students’ challenges include general learning disabilities, developmental delays, behavioral disorders, brain injuries, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, auditory processing, dyslexia and dysgraphia, among others.