Our ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM is designed to give students the skills necessary for a lifetime of leisure, recreational, and sports experiences. Our program follows an elementary through high school curriculum.

Our overall goals include enhancing gross motor skills, sensory integration, motor planning, individual and group play, and social skills. Students engage in skill building activities and game play to prepare them to participate in play and leisure activities with family members and friends. Bicycle riding, use of fitness equipment, a rock climbing wall, and in-school intramurals round out the program.

We offer our students the opportunity to explore many activities and help them to discover activities that they can enjoy throughout their lives.

The ART PROGRAM is based on the concept of “process rather than product.” Our younger students are taught the building blocks of expression: color, line, shape, and design. We build on these skills by exposing the students to a variety of mediums and art techniques, such as, paint, collage, sculpture, and clay. Introducing students to the works of famous artists helps to broaden their knowledge and encourage artistic awareness.

Technology is incorporated into the curriculum for research, photography, and creative expression.

As the students refine their art skills, problem-solving techniques are employed to further their creativity and expression. “Artists of the Week” are selected and their work is proudly displayed for all to enjoy. All students also participate in an annual Art Show where their creations are displayed throughout the building.

The goal of the Art Program is to provide and encourage the love of art… and to have fun in the process!

The Forum SWIM PROGRAM guides students to meet new challenges. Whether the student is water adjusted and ready to go, or on the cautious side, we help them progress through the fundamentals of swimming at their own pace. The Forum School’s campus is equipped with a cheerful, secure, 3½ feet deep indoor pool where children learn basic swimming and water safety skills. Our students experience “fun” in the therapeutic environment, while learning safety skills and gaining all the additional positive health benefits and socialization skills that accompany swimming.

Our older students travel to a local university twice a month where they partake in instruction and enjoy the 6 lane, 25 yard pool. Here, safe water practices, stroke development and refinement, and increased endurance are the goals. In addition, university students enrolled in the Adapted Physical Education Program assist with instruction and interact with our students, creating positive, mutually beneficial results.

The MUSIC PROGRAM strives to reach each student, class, and performing group at their own level and encourages them to reach their highest potential. Both music education and music therapy goals are addressed so the students are not only learning to play music, but are also increasing their cognitive, emotional, social, and motor skills. Singing, movement, and instrumental activities are part of every music class. There is an annual spring show in which all of the classes perform for families and friends.

The Forum School also has a chorus and a hand chimes group. Students that are invited to participate in the chorus practice singing in unison and harmony, while the hand chimes group learns how to perform as a group reading notes off of music charts. Each of these groups performs a holiday concert in December, and travels out to sing in nursing homes, group homes, malls, and other venues several times throughout the year – giving back to the local community.

Our goal is that every student can learn to experience the feeling of joy, accomplishment, and satisfaction of music expression!