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DLC serves not only those
children and youth identified as needing special education
or residential treatment programs, but also those students
who need and deserve a “special” education or therapeutic
living program and special adults to believe in them.
Many of these children and youth
• have been identified as having learning, social,
emotional, or behavioral problems.
• are viewed as violating social standards and the
expectations of those who care for them.
• have withdrawn from acceptable interaction with people.
• display social behavior that is overtly destructive and
disturbing to those around them.
• are labeled as delinquent, disturbed, strange, bizarre,
weird, lazy, wild, crazy, mean or dangerous.
DLC believes that the behaviors of these children and youth
are their best attempts to cope with themselves, their
feelings, and the world around them. It also believes that
these coping attempts represent different stages of social,
emotional, and behavioral development, and that these
developmental differences increase in complexity as time
passes.
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Nashville, TN 37218