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Campus Details
Y.A.L.E. School Mansfield Township
- Address: Mansfield Township Elementary School
200 Mansfield Road East
Columbus, NJ 08022 - Phone: Y.A.L.E. direct line:
(609) 760-1943
Mansfield Twp. Elem. Front Office: (609) 298-2037 - Admissions: (609) 760-1943
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- Email: Email this campus
- Age range: 8 to 12
- Diagnoses: Asperger's or high-functioning autism, ADHD
Y.A.L.E. School Mansfield Township campus
Burlington County
The Y.A.L.E School’s Mansfield Township campus, located in northwestern Burlington County, just off Route 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike, serves students 8 to 12 years of age with social learning disabilities such as Asperger’s disorder (Asperger’s syndrome), high-functioning autism, and ADHD. The program provides a full-day educational program, with extended school year services available. Small classes and low student-teacher ratios give teachers and staff the time and structure needed to provide individualized instruction.
The Mansfield Township campus operates in a modern public elementary/middle school building, allowing students to interact with typical peers.
Because many students with Asperger’s struggle with writing and reading comprehension, the program emphasizes critical thinking and reasoning skills. To help with reading and writing, each student is provided with a personal Alphasmart NEO word processor.
Most students at our Mansfield Township campus are on grade level—some are gifted—but many have learning disabilities associated with Asperger’s.
The Mansfield Township campus offers:
- Low student-to-staff ratio of: 3:1 (1:1 available).
- Small classes limited to nine students.
- Highly-qualified teachers.
- Small group instruction.
- Data-based instruction and intervention.
- Positive behavior support system.
- Opportunities for interacting with typical peers.
- Highly individualized and behaviorally-based motivational systems.
- A sensory friendly classroom.
- Instruction in pragmatic language.
- Direct instruction in social skills using evidence-based strategies.
- A curriculum stressing academics, writing, and reading comprehension, critical thinking and reasoning, and social and community skills.
- Speech therapy, as required by the student’s IEP.
- Frequent trips and activities in the community.
- Non-competitive physical education (swimming, karate, yoga) both at the school and in the community.
- Community-based instruction.
- Frequent communication between school, home, and the student’s home district.
- An extended school year program.
The admissions coordinator at each campus makes individual admissions decisions, but the referral and application process follows a standard multi-step process. Click here to learn more about our referral and admissions process.
News Stories About This Campus
- Mansfield Twp. & Medford Campus Graduation Combined graduation ceremony for the Mansfield Twp. and Medford campuses. Ceremony takes place at the Medford Memorial Middle School location. Read More »
- Dr. Sarah Allen Quoted in Holiday Newspaper Article The Y.A.L.E. School’s Dr. Sarah Allen was quoted in a Medford Central Record newspaper article addressing parents of children with special needs and the holiday season: I encourage parents to remember that as stressful and overwhelming the pressures of the holidays are for us, they are equally uprooting for our children. Given this situation, we should ... Read More »
- Learning by Doing at Y.A.L.E. School Mansfield Township Project-based instruction has always been appealing to students with Asperger’s Syndrome, because it brings multiple modalities to instruction, and makes learning come to life. At Y.A.L.E. School’s Mansfield Township campus, middle school students get the chance to design a hypothetical business, and in so doing, reach across the curriculum as they tie their ideas ... Read More »
- Meet the Y.A.L.E. School Professionals: Dr. Sarah Allen The Y.A.L.E. School’s Medford and Mansfield Township campuses are pleased to welcome Dr. Sarah Allen. The two-campus program is a unique ‘school within a school’ model, serving students with Asperger’s, ADHD and other social learning disabilities in seven elementary and middle school classrooms, all based in local public schools. Dr. Allen knows The Y.A.L.E. ... Read More »
- Mansfield Back To School Night Back To School Night event for the Y.A.L.E. School Mansfield campus. Read More »
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Map & Driving Directions
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From NJ Turnpike
- Take Exit 7
- Continue toward US-206 S
- Follow signs for US 206 S/Interstate 295 and merge onto US-206 S
- Turn left onto Mansfield Rd E
- Take Exit 52A/B toward Florence Rd/Rte 656
- Merge onto Florence Rd/Rte 656
- Continue straight onto Columbus Rd
- Continue onto E Main St
- Continue onto Mt Pleasant Rd
- Turn left onto Island Rd
- Turn right onto Mansfield Rd E
- Head east on I-276 E/Interstate 276
- Exit onto US-130 N toward Bordentown
- Turn right onto Florence Columbus Rd/Rte 656
- Continue to follow Rte 656
- Continue straight onto Columbus Rd
- Continue onto E Main St
- Continue onto Mt Pleasant Rd
- Turn left onto Island Rd
- Turn right onto Mansfield Rd E
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