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Recognizing Difference. Enabling Success for Students with ADHD
At The Winston School of Short Hills, we believe every child with ADHD can thrive when given the right tools, support, and encouragement.
Serving students with ADHD in grades 1st through 8th, Winston is a vibrant community where each learner’s unique strengths are met with purpose-driven, multi-sensory instruction.
We empower individuals with language-based learning differences, such as ADHD, to grow into innovative thinkers and imaginative creators, building confidence, optimism, and self-advocacy as they joyfully reach their full potential.
Why Families Choose Winston for ADHD Support
Personalized Orton-Gillingham–Based Instruction
Winston delivers a personalized learning experience for students with learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and ADHD. Grounded in the Orton Gillingham method students receive small group multisensory instruction tailored to each student’s learning style and pace to unlock each child’s potential.
The Winston Way®
Winston students develop skills as innovative thinkers and imaginative creators, joyfully reaching for their potential by building confidence, optimism, and self-advocacy. Students with ADHD leave Winston empowered, independent learners with a deep understanding of how to leverage their personalized Winston Toolbox, filled with academic strategies, technological tools, and executive functioning skills. Winston students are prepared to navigate their next school and life stages as independent, self-directed learners.
Comprehensive Support and Enrichment Beyond the School Day/Year
Winston offers extended-day and extended-year programming, supplemental language-based programs, such as tutoring and summer assignments, and a Center that supports learning outside the standard school hours. A Winston journey extends beyond the classroom, transforming not only the lives of our students with ADHD but also the well-being of their families.
Helping Students with ADHD Thrive
Families turn to Winston when they recognize that a traditional school setting isn’t meeting the academic needs of their child with ADHD . At Winston, we offer the targeted support, structure, and specialized instruction for each student.Our students are not defined by what they struggle with, but by how they learn best. Our experienced teachers use a strengths-based approach to help learners in grades 1-8 build confidence and independence. Students often arrive at Winston with language-based learning differences or other learning challenges, which may include:
- ADHD: Difficulty with attention and concentration, which impacts multiple areas of learning.
- Anxiety: Persistent worry that affects academic performance and social engagement.
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Challenges in making sense of spoken language, despite typical hearing.
- Dyscalculia: Difficulty understanding numbers, operations, and mathematical concepts.
- Dysgraphia: Challenges with written expression, handwriting, and/or spelling.
- Dyslexia: Reading difficulties related to identifying and connecting sounds to letters and words, affecting reading accuracy, fluency, decoding, and encoding.
- Decoding: Struggles applying rules to sound out unfamiliar words.
- Encoding: Challenges breaking words into sounds for accurate spelling.
- Fluency: Difficulty reading with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression.
- Executive Functioning Weaknesses: Struggles with task initiation, organization, planning, prioritizing, time management, and decision-making.
A Place to Learn and Grow
At Winston, we believe that every student can succeed when given the right tools, support, and encouragement. We help students rediscover the joy of learning, build self-confidence, and develop skills that will carry them into the next stage of their academic journey, and beyond.
“Winston exists for the children whose parents took the bold step of seeing their child's differentness as an opportunity -- an opportunity that says, if you give a child the right environment in which to grow, they will blossom in ways you cannot possibly have expected.”