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Backpack Safety for Children

With progressively challenging curriculum and advancing technology, your child’s backpack is not getting any lighter. Between heavy textbooks, computers and tablets, the contents of your child’s backpack can add up to quite a load. Have you found yourself wondering if all that added weight is safe? Or, maybe you’ve questioned what you can do to lessen the stress a backpack …
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Preschool or Therapeutic Preschool?

Deciding What’s Best for Your Child by Weighing ALL the Factors of Standard Preschool and Therapeutic Preschool As we begin to talk about the “s” word again…school…you may be weighing some options for your kids coming into the fall.  If you have a toddler at home, you may also be entertaining the idea of preschool to help get your little …
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7 Signs That A Child May Need A Therapeutic School

As an authentic therapeutic school, Chicago Therapeutic Children’s Academy employs an intensive therapeutic approach. We combine individual, group and family therapy with a specialized and differentiated academic program delivered by teachers and therapists. Learn about our curriculum at CTCA here. Above all, everyone works to meet the needs of students manifesting signs of personality disruption. 7 Signs That a Student …
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