New Camelot Location Profiled in Quad Cities Paper
Camelot Therapeutic Day School Quad Cities opened in Moline, Il. in September and was profiled in a regional news outlet:
Kids learn coping skills at new Coal Valley center
Published in the Dispatch-Argus on Tuesday, October 28.
The boy is 6, and working on sounds with his teacher, using a chart that shows groups of letters, words and related pictures.
“Ch-air,” he said, sounding out the word.
“Good!” teacher Kristin Fox said, all encouraging brightness.
Other words come quickly over the next couple of minutes. The boy is on a roll.
“You rock!” Ms. Fox tells him when he finishes. They share a double “high five,” then it’s time to play with trucks, which the boy does with equal gusto before going on to a reading lesson.
When he first came to Camelot Therapeutic Day School Quad Cities, the boy, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and reactive attachment disorder, acted out frequently.
However, his outbursts have grown less frequent over time, assistant principal Russ Williams said Monday. “He is now seven days without a meltdown.”
