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Your Child Doesn’t Need to Try Harder. They Need the Right Approach - Today
If your child has ADHD, dyslexia, or a language-based learning difference, the issue isn’t effort: it’s access to the right instruction. At Winston School of Short Hills, we are built specifically for students who learn differently. Through specialized teaching, small classes, and daily targeted support, students build the reading, writing, and executive functioning skills that make real progress possible.
A School Designed for the Way Your Child Learns
120 Minutes of Daily Structured Literacy
Every student participates in our small-group Boost class for 120 minutes each day. This targeted instruction focuses on reading, writing, language, and executive functioning — giving students exactly what they need, when they need it. We build the foundation first so everything else becomes possible.
Skills First. Confidence Follows.
When students finally understand how to read fluently, write clearly, and stay organized, everything changes. Academic progress leads to confidence. Confidence leads to independence. And independence changes the trajectory of school.
Small Classes. Specialized Teachers.
Our educators are trained to teach students with ADHD, dyslexia, and processing challenges. With small class sizes and individualized attention, students are understood, supported, and held accountable in ways that help them grow.
Helping Students in Grades 1-8 Thrive
Families turn to Winston when they recognize that a traditional school setting isn’t meeting their child’s academic needs. 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.”