Since 1987, Bridge School has achieved excellence in education by providing an innovative and high-quality educational program tailored to the individual needs of each student. The Bridge School is a place where students, educators and families collaborate on developing the most positive educational experience possible. The Educational Program serves 14 students (Kindergarten - 8th grade) each year. The school is located on a shared public school site - North Elementary School, a Hillsborough City School District campus in Northern California. This is crucial to our process of identifying necessary adaptations and supports that will enable students to be successful when they transition back to a public school setting.

Professional staff works together to teach a communication-based curriculum, which includes art, communication skill development, community trips and field experiences, computer literacy, expressive language and written communication, leisure management, literature and reading, mathematics, movement integration, science, sensory integration, social studies and history.

Central to the design of the Bridge School Educational Program is the goal to return students to their home school district once they have achieved competence with AAC and technology for learning. Through it's Transition Program, Bridge School continues to provide support to these students in their new educational settings.

Staff at the Bridge School have the knowledge and expertise needed to set the course and provide the guidance to children so that they can return to their home school districts with the self-knowledge that they:

	are capable of communicating what they think
	have a mechanism by which they are able to communicate
	have a voice to contribute to their classes, their schools, and their communities
	are unique, valued and important individuals who have many qualities and talents to share

The Outreach Program fulfills the Bridge School's mission to disseminate and share information and technology developed within the educational program to parents, professionals and users of AAC/AT across the nation and the world. There is an undeniable relationship between the ability to effectively communicate and personal independence, productivity and inclusion. The Outreach Program was established five years after opening our doors to ensure that we could share the innovative educational programs developed at Bridge School to the largest possible audience.