Grounded in Science.
Guided by Love.
Removing Barriers, Revealing Capability.

Serving Infants to
Young Adults

Any Neurodevelopmental
or Behavioral Challenge

Whole-Brain
Model of Care
A Proven Approach to Transformative Outcomes
Jacob’s Ladder is a highly innovative non-profit private special needs school and therapy center that positively transforms the lives of infants through young adults with any neurological or behavioral challenge – and their families. Founded in Roswell, Georgia in 1995, Jacob’s Ladder is internationally renowned and accredited by SAIS-SACS. Grounded in neuroscientific principles and research and guided by love for each individual in our care, Jacob’s Ladder creates a nurturing and encouraging environment where we witness breakthroughs daily. Our proprietary Interpersonal Whole-Brain Model of Care guides individualized programs that support the whole person, creating health and balance one step at a time.
Jacob’s Ladder draws from more than 3,000 interventions to unlock the potential in students from infancy to young adulthood with diagnoses of:

Full Spectrum
Autism
Full Spectrum Autism
We help students with full spectrum autism, including those with diagnoses of ASD and Sensory Processing Disorder, make powerful gains in academic, functional and emotional behavioral development.

Intellectual & Developmental Delays
Intellectual & Developmental Delays
With a customized stimulation program, students with Significant Learning Delay, apraxia, PDD, and communications challenges can develop new brain pathways that lead to growth and learning.

Full Spectrum Autism
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Full Spectrum Autism
We help students with full spectrum autism, including those with diagnoses of ASD and Sensory Processing Disorder, make powerful gains in academic, functional and emotional behavioral development.

Intellectual & Developmental Delays
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Intellectual & Developmental Delays
With a customized stimulation program, students with Significant Learning Delay, apraxia, PDD, and communications challenges can develop new brain pathways that lead to growth and learning.

Full Spectrum Austism
We help students with full spectrum autism, including those with diagnoses of ASD and Sensory Processing Disorder, make powerful gains in academic, functional and emotional behavioral development.

Intellectual & Developmental Delays
With a customized stimulation program, students with Significant Learning Delay, apraxia, PDD, and communications challenges can develop new brain pathways that lead to growth and learning.

Brain Injury
& Stroke
Brain Injury & Stroke
Developing the right neural pathways help students make tremendous academic, functional, and behavioral gains whether they’ve experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, cortical visual impairment (CVI), acquired brain injury, or aphasia.

Cerebral
Palsy
Cerebral Palsy
Students with spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed cerebral palsy achieve strong improvement in physiological and behavioral functioning with our individualized model of care.

Cerebral Palsy
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Cerebral Palsy
Students with spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed cerebral palsy achieve strong improvement in physiological and behavioral functioning with our individualized model of care.

Brain Injury & Stroke
Developing the right neural pathways help students make tremendous academic, functional, and behavioral gains whether they’ve experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, cortical visual impairment (CVI), acquired brain injury, or aphasia.

Cerebral Palsy
Students with spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed cerebral palsy achieve strong improvement in physiological and behavioral functioning with our individualized model of care.

Emotional, Behavioral, & Relational Challenges

Emotional, Behavioral, & Relational Challenges
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Genetic Syndromes
Dramatic improvements in physiological and relational functioning are possible for students with Down Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Fragile X, ML4, SCN2A, Rett Syndrome, and rare chromosomal disorders.

Emotional, Behavioral, & Relational Challenges
We help students overcome challenges associated with high-functioning autism, ODD, ADHD, generalized anxiety disorders, social / relational / behavioral challenges, specific learning differences, lack of self-regulation, and mood disorders.

Trauma Response
Trauma Response
Jacob’s Ladder delivers strength-based trauma informed care and specialized interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder that prioritize physical and emotional safety.

Learning Differences
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Trauma Response
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Trauma Response
Jacob’s Ladder delivers strength-based trauma informed care and specialized interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder that prioritize physical and emotional safety.

Trauma Response
Jacob’s Ladder delivers strength-based trauma informed care and specialized interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder that prioritize physical and emotional safety.

Learning Differences
Targeted interventions help students with ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and specific learning delays achieve their goals by addressing root neurodevelopmental causes.
Why Jacob's Ladder Helps Children with Special Needs Succeed
Students of Jacob’s Ladder benefit from more than 20 years of research, discovery, and implementation of the groundbreaking Interpersonal Whole-Brain Model of Care, developed at Jacob’s Ladder. Frequent, intensive, and specifically selected interventions, delivered in safe, loving environments, support development of a well-connected and effectively communicating brain. To achieve meaningful and measurable outcomes, both programs and their delivery are equally important. This is the Jacob’s Ladder difference. It is how we help students with any neurological or behavioral challenge achieve more significant outcomes in shorter timeframes than other educational programs or special needs schools.
Transforming Lives One Step At A Time
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About Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder created the internationally known and trademarked Interpersonal Whole-Brain Model of Care. It is the foundation for all of our academic and therapeutic programming.

Hope, Truth and Love
The Jacob's Ladder story, filmed in 2015, is about how a mother's love for her son and belief in his potential resulted in positive transformation for more than 4,000 special needs children. Read the entire story.

“Since he’s been here, our world has changed, and he has changed. And we see a kid that we would have never known otherwise.”
-Jacob’s Ladder Parent
Come visit to see our approach in action.

Jacob's Ladder School & Therapy Centers
Roswell (Main Campus) & Atlanta (Buckhead)
407 Hardscrabble Road
Roswell, Georgia 30075
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