Welcome to New Horizons Academy!
“If a child can not learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
New Horizons Academy at Sara’s Garden offers a holistic, all-encompassing educational path for children who have special learning needs and are preschool through grade twelve. Our mission is to provide the highest quality educational and intervention programming available and empower children with disabilities to reach their full potential.
New Horizons does not solely focus on any one area of development; rather, each developmental domain (social, emotional, communicative, physical, and cognitive) is developed simultaneously throughout the school day. Great importance is placed on setting high goals and expectations and providing students with the appropriate assistance required for them to achieve their individual goals.
Providing an academic curriculum that is challenging is of utmost importance, while simultaneously discovering and exploring the ways our students are best able to access that curriculum.
NHA serves over 150 students from 37 school districts across Northwest Ohio between its Wauseon and Holland campuses.
New Horizons Academy Alma Mater
New Horizons we sing your praises each and every day.
For here we learn that we are colors in a stunning rich array.
With peace and love and hope we dare to proudly, boldly speak.
At NHA we celebrate we’re each remarkably unique.
Where e’er our paths may take us to whatever distant shore.
One voice will rise above them all as we sing ‘Soar Eagles, Soar!’
Intervention Services
Autism Intervention
Autism Intervention attempts to lessen the deficits and abnormal behaviors associated with Autism and other Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and to increase the quality of life and functional independence of Autistic individuals. Treatment is tailored to meet each child’s specific needs.
Conductive Education
Conductive Education is an intensive and holistic approach to educating children and adults with neuromotor disabilities. CE combines physical activity with cognitive tasks, emphasizes communication, and places the individual in a group setting which maximizes active learning.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is an allied health profession that focuses on teaching skills for everyday living. The practice of OT can greatly vary according to the setting and clientele. OT can assist to address issues at school, home or work which may be impacting someone’s day to day function.
Sensory Integration
Controlled sensory input has been shown to be effective in reducing stress and improving concentration, eye-hand coordination and motor function for children and adults, developmental disabilities, autism, chronic pain, stroke, traumatic brain injuries, and other conditions.
Speech/Language Therapy
Many conditions may cause difficulty with speech and language development. Speech Therapy (also known as Speech-Language Pathology) works to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social and cognitive communication, and swallowing disorders.
Why New Horizons Academy?
A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LOOK AT SCHOOL.
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
Instructional approaches are varied and adapted to the individual and diverse students in the classroom. This requires teachers to be flexible in their approach to teaching and adjust the curriculum and presentation of information to learners rather than expecting students to modify themselves for the curriculum.
FOCUSED TEACHING
In a New Horizons Academy classroom, children receive special, carefully structured and focused teaching in order to learn what they could not learn from previous exposure in a typical classroom environment. Our classes are cross-categorical and grouped by developmental and cognitive abilities.
CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION
We have found that consistent communication and parent involvement has been a crucial force in our student’s development, learning, and success at school and in life. This intentional communication helps build on-going, productive, and trusting relationships with the families that we serve.
CARING STAFF
We have an amazing staff that is committed to giving each child the unconditional love and attention needed for a positive learning experience. We provide a safe, nurturing environment that cultivates self-esteem and helps our students achieve developmental, educational and social success.
HIGHLY ADAPTIVE
NHA students enjoy a highly adaptive classroom experience to ensure they are given a positive path towards the achievement of needed academic and developmental skills. Teachers provide students with the necessary tools to achieve success and find the best way to navigate any challenges that may arise.
UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT
New Horizons Academy provides its students with a quiet, secure setting designed to minimize distractions. Our staff makes it a priority to provide students with calming or alerting sensory activities to improve their ability to attend and focus during school-related tasks and interventions.
We Are NHA!
EXCEL
INSPIRE
SOAR
STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS (% SERVED)
AUTISM
MULTI-HANDICAPPED
ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENT
DOWN SYNDROME
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
OTHER
The educational labels listed above are based on the Ohio Department of Education’s Autism and Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship special education categories for children identified on an Individualized Education Program (IEP).