Lancaster County Special Education Department

South Providence School is an alternative school for students who have difficulty in the traditional school environment. The school serves students in grades 6 through 12. It administers the Day Treatment Program, which provides cognitive and behavioral services, as well as assists students with their academic curriculum. South Providence School also offers on-site counseling services. It also organizes boys and girls therapeutic groups and various extracurricular activities for students. The school additionally provides the Interim Alternative Education Setting Program and the Alternative Disciplinary Program. South Providence School is operated by Union County Public Schools, which operates several elementary, middle and high schools. It is located in Waxhaw, N.C.

The Fletcher School, named for one of its founders, Mac Fletcher, was established in 1982 by parents who wanted more educational options for their children with specific learning disabilities. It is an independent school, operated as a nonprofit organization, with a program designed to meet the individual needs of students with specific learning disabilities and attention difficulties, such as disorders in reading, written expression or math, dyslexia, dysgraphia and language processing deficits. It offers a comprehensive educational program designed to build the academic, social and emotional competence of its students, and enables them to accept and value themselves. Fletcher School s program offers a student-to-teacher ratio of 6-to-1, and is based on the principles of the Orton-Gillingham approach for teaching reading, writing, spelling and math, as part of a total language system.