Soaring Eagle Academy Takes Students With Autism to New Heights
The autism academy, which hosted an open house Saturday, opened in Burr Ridge in September of 2010 with only five students and has since grown to more than 30.
Since 1987, Deanna Tyrpak has worked with special needs children to evaluate and treat speech and language disorders. Tyrpak's own 20-year-old daughter has autism, which is what inspired Tyrpak to open a school in Burr Ridge specifically to meet the needs of students with autism spectrum disorders. “[Dominique] took me on this journey ... When she was younger, people would often misinterpret what they saw as behaviors that should be changed,” said Tyrpak. “They were actually her way of communicating; she just couldn’t process the incoming information.” After hearing about a new model for treating Autism, known as the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based model, Tyrpak read a book by Dr. Stanley Greenspan, called The …
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Molly Hogan
9:51 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
Molly, it was a privilege to be able to cover and learn more about SEA, it seems like a great community. I look forward to hearing more about its success in the future! more ›