KIEFER SCHOOL PROGRAM OVERVIEW 

The Kiefer School is an NCA-accredited, ISBE-approved private school for children and youth experiencing special learning problems coupled with emotional and/or behavioral disturbances. After public school personnel identify students in need of services, a referral can be arranged through special education coordinators. The student population is composed of children with primary handicapping conditions of behavior disorder, learning disabled, educationally mentally handicapped, traumatic brain injury, autism and other health-impaired conditions. Educational placement occurs at no cost to parents. 

DEMOGRAPHICS 

 Children and youth 3 to 21 years of age with a functional IQ of 50 or above are those usually referred. 
Kiefer Preschool - ages 3 to 5

Kiefer Knoxville - ages 5 to 13

Kiefer Academy - ages 13- to 21 

Their emotional disturbances or social maladjustment has interfered with their ability to benefit from their home public school education. One hundred and forty-four students are served within eighteen classrooms. 
Kiefer School services students within a 50-mile radius of Peoria on a day treatment basis. Each classroom is staffed with a certified teacher and a teaching assistant.

 
SERVICES OFFERED 

Services include special education day treatment by multi-certified teachers, and teaching assistants, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, individual, group and family therapy, and job coaching services. Consultation services are available through child psychiatrists. The involvement of parents is heavily stressed. 
Students requiring more intensive services, or those who live too far away from Kiefer School to be bussed daily, may be placed in Children’s home Residential Treatment or a Group Home.

Please contact Gwynetta Bullock, Director of Kiefer School, for
inquiries or referrals.  
Phone: (309) 687-7237
E-mail: gbullock@chail.org

Fax: (309) 687-7299