The Atlanta Speech School continues to bring the latest research-based education to its students and to impact the education of children far beyond its campus.
The Buckhead school serving students at birth through sixth grade has for 12 years offered free training for teachers of children from birth to age 8. In August, when it launched an online video, titled “Every Opportunity,” through the school’s Rollins Center for Language and Literacy’s virtual Cox Campus, it received 1.3 million views on YouTube and another whopping 33 million views on Facebook.
“We’ve had requests from Egypt, Brazil, Australia, Romania for assistance,” Comer Yates, the school’s executive director, said. “…We describe ourselves as the education equivalent of a teaching hospital. We have a limited number of children we can serve here but then we can leverage the experiences of being able to bring the talents of these teachers to the school. This isn’t our research but it’s our application of the research.”